It’s an interesting story from an interesting point of view.
I enjoy stories told from new points of view, especially when they are
inanimate objects. It makes you think about how these tools and objects we use
see us. I do feel the beginning makes the story harder to understand by trying
to trick the reader into thinking the narrator is a human. The third sentence
says, “I’m not really even a social person.” You open by calling the narrator a
person, and when we find out it’s a knife on page two it breaks up the flow,
because I had to go back to see if I missed a detail where you said it was a
knife. It makes the story harder to get into, because now it’s like the reader
has to start over again.
I also find the number of victims unrealistic for such an
incompetent killer. It says he killed thirty-five women, and was only “caught”
because a cop car just happened to be driving past that very ally at that very moment
he was killing the woman. Not to mention he uses the same weapon for each murder
and started with his wife. Did no one notice she disappeared? Did Bill report
her missing? If he didn’t it’s suspicious. If he did he would be a suspect. For
this story to work he would have to be a criminal mastermind, who he doesn’t
seem to be, and the police would have to be completely worthless. This makes
the story untruthful and hard to swallow.
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