The Reservoir

 

 The Reservoir by David Duchovny (2021, 128 pages)

New York City native and early Wall Street retiree Ridley is on quarantine in his high rise Manhattan apartment during the early days of Covid. Fancying himself an artist, he starts a time lapse series overlooking Central Park. It’s been months since he’s had much human interaction. Ridley reviews his time lapse from the previous night, when he notices a blinking light from across the park. Someone is trying to communicate. With him. An opposing high rise from across the reservoir is, what, morse code light blinking? He starts waking up in the middle of the night to blink his lights back. We see just how far Ridley will go for human connection.

Interesting short story that kept me reading, but a smidge confusing. I do like the way it ended! David Duchovny can keep his Spooky nickname. 

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