Not the only writer whose hard drive retains incriminating evidence of macabre research data, I’m in the same camp with those authors who strive to write fiction with conviction.

Why, most authors wouldn’t even harm a fly!

Operative word, “most”.

Some have been convicted of murder.

With Halloween coming around the bend, my morbid curiosity behooved me to research such truths stranger than fiction.

Lo and behold!

Having no intention of glorifying criminals who’ve crossed the line onto non-fictitious territory, I’ll merely gloss over the murder warranting a conviction for which they’ve served time:

At the age of sixteen, bludgeoning a friend’s mother to death with a rock.

Accidentally shooting and killing a spouse in a drunken prank.

Shooting and killing a classmate, then cannibalizing the remains.

Foretold in the title of the author’s book, murdering a spouse.

Killing it in the capacity of a writer, I’ve crossed the fictitious finish line for the draft of chapter 3 (950 words). I’ve begun puttering around drafting chapter 4.

*May literary crime pay for those of us who write fiction with murderous content.

My sincere appreciation to you for reading this far.

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