In Competition No. 3160 you were invited to supply a short story whose opening sentence is ‘I have no idea whether I killed him.’
The idea for this challenge came from The Mandibles: A Family 2029-2047, Lionel Shriver’s gripping and plausible 2016 novel about societal meltdown in the US following the collapse of its economy (yes, the toilet roll runs out).
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