Just finished reading a very good film-noir style story, but when it was over I couldn’t help but thinking how many fictional tragedies could never have been told if humans were just incapable of getting angry and/or blackout drunk . . .
Posts Tagged ‘Fiction’
I Don’t Even Want To Think About How Many Nonfiction Stories Wouldn’t Have Ever Happened
April 22, 2021Today’s Life Lesson From Fiction
October 4, 2018If you ever get into one of those suspended animation pods, whatever you do, do not get into the one closest to the door because that’s the one that always malfunctions and has a skeleton in it when the explorers arrive.
Maybe They Just Think It’s Funny (Watch Out For This One In Particular)
July 2, 2015It’s a cliché of fiction that the deathbed confession (as well as its close cousin, the confession made by person so old that it qualifies as a near-deathbed confession) is always true. “What possible reason would they have to not tell the truth at this point?” the thinking goes. “What would they have to gain?
In real life, potentially a lot.
Maybe they’re protecting a legacy, maybe they’re trying to create a legacy (“Yeah, you know that unsolved crime? That was me!”), maybe they’re an habitual liar, maybe they’re an habitual manipulator, maybe they think it’s true, but they’re actually just delusional . . .
The list goes on and on.