OptionalFiction

I wrote this story on my phone late in bed last night (and am writing this journal the next morning). I want to try out a breadth of genres with this project and landed on “mystery” for this story. It's still a parody of the genre and not a real attempt. Maybe I should challenge myself to write something without a punchline or twist at the end. The joke of this story also changed a couple of times until it settled on an obnoxious detective. I had the idea of the presented motives becoming increasingly strenuous until a completely obvious suspect is revealed at the end (e.g. “Or was it this masked intruder holding a smoking gun?”). Another idea was for the detective himself to have killed him. I'm unsure if I've managed to sell the idea of the detective being some obnoxious nitpicker. It's a trope anyway so I don't know if a reader going in blind would pick up on it.