STORY STARTER
All the clues point towards me, but I can't have committed these murders!
From a first person perspective, write a short story about a detective who is slowly discovering that he might somehow be the murderer he is hunting.
Fishy fella
Looking at my clipboard
Connecting the pegs with red strings.
Scratching the side of my head
“Who could this fella be?”
I’m looking at my list of suspects and checking it twice
They all sure don’t seem nice.
“What’s that stench?”
Blood on my jacket? It can’t possibly be fresh
It was dripping from my jacket and falling onto my leather shoe too.
Just then my assistant walked into the room. saw the blood , saw my gun with an empty bullet beside it. A look of horror crept upon his face as he began to run away and say, “ No , It can’t be true! How could it be you?”
“It can’t be me, that’s not a possibility.”
“It now is a possibility, This ain’t the reality you grew up in no longer. “
I turned around to see the sheriff
holding a pair of handcuffs
“I’ll need to take you in for interrogation.”
“Yes sir.” I said reluctantly while I began to feel a frustration building up inside of me.
Thanks for the feedback @Ian King ! (Don’t know if you’ll see this)
This is my first time writing a story in this kind of mystery theme. I forgot to tag the genre. Oops my bad . so I made a couple mistakes imagining what was happening in the scene as well as a few mistakes playing out the scene and describing it .
I meant that like the assistant shouted in disbelief while running away. I should have been more descriptive.
I liked the fact that you turned this into a poem/story. It felt fun to read.
However, the dialogue I felt was lacking. It didn’t come across as natural. Also, the assistant ran away but could still be heard? And then the sheriff comes out of nowhere. I also wouldn’t expect someone to just feel frustration as realising he is the potential killer he has looking for.