Anyone know what the thing you hit on a typewriter to go to the next line is called? I tried to find it online and I’ll be damned if I could…

It’s called a carriage return, check out: http://www.explainthatstuff.com/typewriter.html

As to the story, I did find it hard to believe that a man who had spent years writting his magnum opus on the back of scraps of paper would so easily finish himself off when it had it typed out. I feel that this guy’s neurosis need to be fleshed out a little more.

His magnum opus was his suicide note. I did leave that a big vague, I suppose. Can’t all be winners. :)

The great and powerful Krulltar was wrong… I guess it was bound to happen eventually.

after reading this again, I was floored at what I missed reading it the first time. For some reason I drew the wrong conclusion when I first read this. I didn’t realize he was writing suicide note. I assumed he was a writer who wrote his last story and commited suicide.

Anywho, more pencils added because it deserves it.

ps. Your avatar looks like an old sepia colored photo of Robert E. Lee

Bless your heart, sir! Thank you. The painting is actually hanging over our dinner table. It’s a photo of Juan Quixote I bought in Mexico.

Whoa, this is great! I love the subtlety with the suicide note. A couple of things- you might consider saying he pulled out the revolver in the second to last paragraph, just to distinguish it from pulling the trigger.

Second, I feel that there is some past/present tense disagreement, particularly in the first paragraph, though I realize it’s difficult to communicate that sort of thing in a narrative.

Anyway, nice work. Well done!

I hope he wrote a choose-your-own-adventure suicide note.