The short story I read from this packet was Brian Evenson's Internal from his book Contagion. It is a little hard to follow as it is very descriptive in its' details. An intern is asked to literally spy on a doctor's brother, going as far as drilling holes in the wall to spy on him. The intern finds out that the apartments where he could be are abandoned. The intern is asked by an entirely unrelated doctor to spy on their brother as well. Their are already holes in the wall, seemingly made by the brother to observe the intern. I could not really extract a deep meaning from the story. The details given in the analyses of the doctors and the intern are almost satirical in a way. They are obsessive in categorizing and labeling people with types and percentages. Toward the end, the story becomes a bit horrific in a way in my opinion. The intern watches the brother, the brother watches the intern, the intern even considering jabbing a sharp object into the brothers' eye.
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