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WRITING OBSTACLE
Write a story about a police investigation that uses an unreliable narrator.
An unreliable narrator can make you suspect the truth of a story. Consider what perspective you would write it from, and which bits of information you would leave out to make the narrator seem untrustworthy.
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Unlike some of my neighbours, this was my first time in a police station. I have to admit to being a bit nervous sitting here - who wouldn’t be? These pokey little interview rooms are just as intimidating as they look on TV.
I was delighted to be asked to help the police with their enquiries. Well, I’d been banging on at them to do something for months. The first few times I called I was given the...
“Let me get this straight, ma’am. Your girl, I’m sorry, your wife is missing, been gone since 11:30 last night. Now did you say you two were fighting on the phone, no not fighting just having words. Having words, having words about what ma’am? No no offense, I’m trying to understand get a complete picture. Ok ok, you were talking to your friend sorry wife as she was leaving the Speedy Nines. She ...
i’m so good at fake crying! I think to myself.
It’s a good thing too, because I really need to find that transformer. Optimus prime, the coolest one.
I don’t quite remember when I lost it, but I think, it was the same day that the police came to our house. Mama says it has to be at the house somewhere and stop bugging her, because she has too much on her mind already.
Daddy just yells at me every...
“So, tell us” a voice said from the dark, “What happened that night?”
“You know that I’m not going to speak about it.” I said smirking as he slammed his hand on the table.
“We know that you were there, what’s the point of hiding it!” “Acting like this will just get you into just as much trouble as he is!!” Officer Lin yelled.
“He moved” I said calmly, “Your never going to find him.”
“How a...
As expected that cops came the next morning. His job most likely called when he hadn’t showed up to work this morning, 5 days in a row was odd.
“Sir, we just need to ask you a few questions regarding your husband” the policeman said.
Thinking to myself, I want to say ‘he was tasty, what about him’ but instead I hid my chuckle.
“Sure, come on in. Is everything ok” I responded
“It looks like...
The police came round today. There was a murder. It was just my best friends. I pushed her down the stairs. I killed her. Just kidding! she farted. But in a way, I killed her for it. But it wasn’t murder. Instead, we snorted our brains out like preschoolers over it. I guess even age doesn't change our sense of humour. Or how much our relationship really means to me. Or how much it annoys me when s...
“Trust me! Just shave it off!” Detective Black was determined.
“Liam this is highly unorthodox.” Protested the medical examiner.
“I have a hunch this John Doe wasn’t just another vagrant Dean.”
“Unorthodox or not, he’s dead. Let’s just indulge him.” detective Krane chimed in, “Liam here got me curious as fuck now.”
“Whatever you say.” The medical examiner reached for the shaver, shaking his he...
Det. Debra Worthington opened the door of her unmarked, grabbing the gun from the passenger’s seat and holstering it as she got out of the car. She had gotten the call on her work phone to go talk to Slim Teason because he said he had some information for her about the murder and needed to see her right away.
“Where are you?” Debra asked, inwardly groaning. Slim was one of the street informants t...
When the police came I led them into the woods, where the person was lay half submerged in the lake.
They began putting tape up immediately, taking photographs and calling other officers, leaving me by a tree as I really let the situation sink in.
I had been on a morning walk when I suddenly needed to pee, so, feeling urgent, I dashed into the bushes and did what I had to do.
Then I noticed a ...
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