ENTRY // 2026-03-18

the photograph they sent


Someone sent me a screenshot. no message with it, just the picture, which came off one of the neighborhood watch groups, a woman posted it saying she caught the "perp" on her camera. I cropped her caption off when I saved it. I kept the caption too. I keep everything. but the caption is not the part that matters. The part that matters is the circle.

The man is in a mask. fine. A mask is nothing, a mask is anyone, that is what a mask is FOR. But look at the build. the shoulders. I know my own shoulders, I have photographs of my own shoulders, and I stood at the bathroom mirror tonight comparing until the bulb made it pointless.

She circled the left side of the face. by the eye. she says there is a lump there, her identifying mark. I have a line on the left side. same side. had it for years, it is in every photo of me including the bad ones. A line, not a lump. They got the side right and the mark wrong, which means the reference they are working from is old. or edited. Saved twice. she goes on the list with the other two.

the photograph they sent
the photo they sent of me but not me -- sent without comment -- source untraced -- keeping for documentation