Imitating Art

Stories are timeless and some travel too well

A writer traveling in Asia settles down in a remote guesthouse in the off season. He needs a cheap and quiet place to write a crime story based on one he heard while working in a boatyard in the Caribbean. He's got an idea of how to weave together the tale of a murderer who escaped prison and how he rebuilt a boat in Trinidad and started stealing.

When a bar girl takes an interest in his work, even making suggestions about how he can make the story more interesting to people, things around him get intriguing. When he spins out the story, just because the bar girl wants to hear it, fiction and reality blur together in a curious combination. And the outcome changes everything.