Quixotic: Science Fiction

His heart was too wild for the love she gave him, and she knew it. He returned her love in all, and he loved her and their child, but the wildness in him hurled him at impossible enemies, and she knew she'd eventually be walking the graveyard with his child, going to visit Papa. Still, she smiled when he spent the money they scrimped and saved between their minimum wage jobs on tools to do impossible things. Cameras that had suckers on their feet. Microphones that could be glued--oh so gently--to the back of a roach, that would transmit their recordings for up to a mile to the receiver. Microphones that needed only to be pointed at the window of the building--


Inspiration: Google-fu on "sticky," which led to sticky-pod cameras, and "Run Preciosa" by Joe Ely
Story Potential: Medium
Notes: Fun character, but no story oomph here.