Fragment: A second person narrative on a murder. [1/7/1993]
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You are a chartered accountant. Your name is Alex Simpson, but you are commonly known as Al. You are twenty-six, and you were born in Shropshire on the seventeenth of January. Now, you are alternately machine-gunning away at your computer keyboard and sipping at your glass of clear red wine. You smile at the thought of your almost complete report. A sudden sound breaks your train of thought. You realise it was nothing and scold yourself. Your concentration wanders back to the screen in front of you and you imagine Chris - your boss - praising you for your good work. The first blow hits you on the back of the neck and you instinctively start to turn. Dazed, you glimpse a gloved hand crashing down on you. As the second blow lands, everything turns black.
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These are the notes that I'd made on the piece of paper that I wrote this text on:
[2/7/1993]
Add more details? -Family life -Some clue perhaps?
Murderer. Male/Female.
Male - Doesn't need a weapon but could have.
Female - Probably would have unless strong/trained.
Reasons for murder - motives.
money (will / robbery [-accidental. doesn't realise he is dead/anyone home])
hate <-> love?
[employed to (assassin, but employer?)]
victim knows too much (assassin again?)
psychotic killer / serial killer. (pleasure/random/fits a pattern) [Put police off the scent]
revenge (direct or indirect) - victim could be the actual baddie
[5/7/1993]
ambition (cf. Macbeth) personal/other
(mental disorder) (morbid/necrophiliac fascination)
political (bloody hell!)
fear (remove fear)
[8/9/1993] - Report perhaps? Scene - cut to a 'Chris' - but a different Chris to mislead the readers. Attacker - woman. Wine/blood stains? Set in Newcastle. Rainy day - attacker wears hairnet under hat, also gloves. Hammer in inside pocket. Afterwards, burnt clothes and threw hammer into riverside mud at boundary between high + low tides (get times from somewhere). MOTIVE? Probably at night / evening / early morning / weekday - less chance of being seen. Entrance to house? Does Alex live on his own?