Julian Saunders was bored. He was even bored of waving his fingers through his hair and looking bored—though he was only bored of that because there was no one to see him.

He sat down in his gaming chair and rolled across the room, stopping to look down from his full-length window. The sunlight sparkled attractively on the family pool and cast the shadows of the trees behind it across the manicured lawn. A momentary smile flitted across Julian’s face when he remembered how he’d shoc...