★★☆☆☆ The Lie, by T.C. Boyle
** spoiler alert ** A story about a stupid liar who tells a stupid lie
The Lie
T.C. Boyle
** spoiler alert **
A story about a stupid liar who tells a stupid lie
Two days ago I started a local community college course called "Writing Short Stories". As an example the first week's material had a video of author T. Coraghessan Boyle reading his story The Lie aloud.
The story in summary is that the protagonist (certainly not a hero), who is a lazy guy, doesn't want to go to work one morning, so he calls his boss and tells him a really stupid lie. The next day he skips work again and he doubles down on the lie. Eventually he gets caught by his wife.
There are a lot of stories of stupid people acting stupid. There are so many that I have to assume some people like these stories. I am not one of them.