One Step From Reality
by Peter C. Byrnes
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A ‘Wannabe’ Writer craves to be the Author of the Great Australian Novel.
For his efforts he has penned sixty-nine Crime Novellas of a questionable standard, but at least his efforts have achieved some success on the ‘Web’ with his list of crime stories producing over one hundred thousand downloads!
Still, he strives for more.
To obtain some authenticity in his latest offering, he thinks to commit the perfect murder would result in a ‘Best Seller’. But the perfect murder is difficult to imagine and even more difficult to achieve…to carry out…and he is frightful of the punishment if by chance he was arrested and charged…it then not being the perfect murder after all.
He is arrested for the slaying of a young woman that he never knew…and though he is aware of his innocent, he continues with the farce for research-sake, assured that his innocence will prevent him from ever being charged with the homicide. It strikes him in a moment of clarity that if he does carry out that perfect murder and authors a story on the event, he is constructing his own confession…
He was playing a dangerous game…
Where does research for another spine-chilling fiction saga stop and reality kick in?
What is the distance between fact and fiction; sanity and insanity; truth, fantasy and whimsy; dream and nightmare?
