/lit/ - Literature

Little idea for a short story:

A man who works in a dull post office job struggles for the recognition of his family and colleagues. During paranoid-schizofrenic episodes, he secretly fantasizes about killing however crosses his path at the moment. He expresses his disturbing thoughts by talking to himself.

One of his colleagues overhears his ramblings and strikes a mocking pose. He snaps and acts on his fantasy by following her home after work and murdering her.

The main character has learned from all this that he should write his fantasies on paper instead of saying them out loud.

It's a self-referencing story since it is focalised through the main-character who wrote it. It is thus ambiguous if he in fact committed the murder or simply made up the whole story on paper.

Forgive my English, it is not my native tongue.

Pic related, character is slightly based on this book