His aunt didn’t see him watching her put in the wall safe’s code.

She didn’t see him hiding in the cellar the morning she left for her three week cruise.

He couldn’t see her pull out and bolt the sliding metal door she had recently installed at the cellar entrance.

Diane de Anda has published fiction, poetry, and essays in Rosebud, Straylight, Storyteller, Pacific Review, Bilingual Review, Frogpond, Modern Haiku, Bottle Rockets, Presence, and others; satire in Humor Times; eight children’s books; and a collection of 40 flash fiction stories.