WRITING OBSTACLE
By Kevin Grieve @ Unsplash

Open a horror or thriller story with the scene of a duck gently touching down in misty waters.
NPC.
You know that life is weird when you feel like you’re in a video game. Everything feels unreal, everyone has their own story, different, but all the same. You’re the only real person there. Everyone else are just NPC’s. Non playable characters. Yes, that is, indeed bad, but what is even worse is when you feel like you’re not real either. Just sitting on a bench, staring into the unreal crystal looking lake. You don’t know how you got there, or why…It’s morning, sure, it has to be. The lake is still misty. Only the duck in the middle seems to catch your attention. “It does look real” you say to yourself as you look into the water. Only then you notice the bench is not actually there, never have been. You’re sitting in the soaking wet grass…