"Which side of reality do you wake up on, doctor?" Everything that left my mouth seemed to have taken him by surprise, from the fact I actually talked to the question itself.
"I don't understand what you're asking."
"You think I'm the unstable one, the insane one, the deplorable one. You mistake my silence as stupidity, but it is anything but. Yet, when I ask you 'which side of reality did you wake up on', you can't answer me. You don't have an answer. Your reality and my reality are two different things, but both exist at the same time; occurring simultaneously. Whether you choose to acknowledge the side of reality I am on is completely up to you."
"Are you trying to entertain the idea that you're sane, Ms. Mallory?"
"I ask again: which side of reality are you on?"
A psychological harrowing tale about death, destruction, murder, ailment, reality, and fantasy. Taking the perspective of an unreliable narrator we soon get clues that not everything is as it seems. With so many unreliable characters and with the line between reality and fantasy becoming more vague, we only have one question on our mind:
What truly did occur?
A criminal mastermind makes a bold move against a wealthy client to put himself in a position to retire in comfort. He has no idea what he's up against when a young widow, desperate to make ends meet, sets her eyes on earning the bounty set on his head.
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Newly widowed housewife Melody Scott needs to earn some major cash, fast. When her bright and busy children learn that a priceless ruby bracelet has been stolen and a six-figure reward is being offered, they convince her to try to do what the police, museum security, and the best private investigators have failed to do. Working against them is a notorious thief who has met people from around the world, but who has never once encountered a woman like Melody Scott. When the sweet innocence of the Scott family clashes against criminal forces more dangerous than they ever imagined, Melody is all too aware that a mom's got to do what a mom's got to do to protect her family.
The Widow, Melody Scott is a 2021 Watty Award Winner!
Content Warning: This story does contain depictions of stalking behavior.