My Obsession With an Internet Bad Girl

Leads to an online crime of passion

When we write about free stock photo websites, we usually talk about overused images like the ones we’ve seen too often on Unsplash. But surfing other free photo websites, like Pexels (with whom I have no commercial ties), has its rewards.

We all have had the experience of a song or commercial jingle that we can’t get out of our head. I am having this phenomenon with a photograph on Pexels by Isabella Mendes.

When I’m online or crafting my next Medium article, I find myself returning to her. You see, she is not to be ignored. As much as I try and distract and busy myself during this pandemic, she is there with lit cigarette and a mind full of danger.

Her sexy, dangerous insouciance has me entranced, suckered and played for a fool. Like a needy BDSM freak craving corporal punishment to assuage my sins, real or imagined, I want her long, sharp nails to scratch me into ecstasy.

In my devotion to her, I have naively volunteered to be the driver in this getaway car for which her next bank robbery, drug deal or jewelry heist is surely imminent. Still, she rebuffs me, mouthing something about not wanting to share the proceeds of crime or getting me into trouble.

Well I want to be in trouble with her, dammit!

Normally, I would invite my fellow Medium writers to use and enjoy this photo, far and wide. But not this time and not this photo.

You see, she will be mine and mine alone. I will not share her!

So I have done the unthinkable. I have committed a crime of passion.

I have kidnapped her.

Don’t worry. Her needs are being attended to. She will not be harmed. My undying love for her will not permit any soiling or desecration of her badasserly beauty.

But to free her, I call on you, my fellow Medium writers.

I am holding her ransom until this article goes viral and puts me into the three figure club.

That’s not much to ask. Don’t disappoint me!

Only then will I release her.

Only then will she know that my care and provision for her will free her from her doomed life of crime.

Once this is achieved, you can use her picture freely and share her mysterious beauty and danger with your readers.

Don’t toy with me or prolong my agony. Only you can free her.

You don’t know the lengths I will go to to make her mine.

The getaway car is waiting so she and I can drive off into the sunset as one.

The clock is ticking on my obsession timebomb.

Start clicking and sharing as if her life and liberty depended on it!

I have reached out to photographer Isabella Mendes to let her know how much I love her work and will share if she responds.