The truth would come out soon. It
was a waiting game, to see how much Pierre had worked out and how much he still
remembered. He knew that much for the letter. Perhaps there were others like
it, but if so they had yet to be discovered.
Sanjay was sitting carefully in
the kitchen of the apartment, taking care not to be noticed by his roommate,
who could wake up any second. Fortunately, he was a heavy drinker. There were empty vodka bottles littering
along the kitchen bench. He had been up to it again last night.
A red flame burned in front of Sanjay,
charring a tabloid newspaper which in his opinion would rather deserve such
treatment on a more regular basis.
Sanjay couldn’t remember where the letter he had read yesterday had gone.
When the paper in front of him had all turned to ash, he washed the remains
down in the sink.
It was all coming together. It was
an odd combination of events for everything to end up this way. Sanjay had just
talked to his family, telling them what he could. There was no easy way to tell
any part of the story, however. It looked increasingly likely that he would
have to return home. He could keep looking for other jobs, but the whole
association with both Neil and Pierre may have compromised his chances.
Everything was coming together.
Time would tell where he would end up.
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This story is in the process of wrapping up. This is where the nature of Sanjay as an unreliable narrator comes into clear focus. I like this post a lot. Its my second favourite. I do think that if I made Sanjay into an unreliable narrator throughout but kept it vague as to why he was unreliable and what exactly it was hiding, that might improve the short story overall. This will be one of my goals during the editing process. This might my main one actually. I've had a quick look back at what I've written and I think that rearranging the days to be out-of-sequence won't help the flow.
I had originally thought of putting the ones with the job interview and the unusual items first, but while that would hook readers that isn't where most of the short story is. This had originally been meant to be about absurdist humour with odd episodes, but it has taken a very different turn due to the events which have come up. That was the point of this project and it means that when I edit this it needs to keep in mind what it has become.
Today's event is from SBS and concerns a rare lunar event. I indirectly worked that in with the focus on things all coming together. That seemed more meaningful than shoehorning in the moon in some more direct way.
It has only been towards the end that I've really been able to reflect better on how I've been going, whereas at the start and the middle these mini-reflections have been less informative.
Today's event is specifically from
I had originally thought of putting the ones with the job interview and the unusual items first, but while that would hook readers that isn't where most of the short story is. This had originally been meant to be about absurdist humour with odd episodes, but it has taken a very different turn due to the events which have come up. That was the point of this project and it means that when I edit this it needs to keep in mind what it has become.
Today's event is from SBS and concerns a rare lunar event. I indirectly worked that in with the focus on things all coming together. That seemed more meaningful than shoehorning in the moon in some more direct way.
It has only been towards the end that I've really been able to reflect better on how I've been going, whereas at the start and the middle these mini-reflections have been less informative.
Today's event is specifically from
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