Wild Fiction

This morning, Surrey police released the identification of the body found in a Brixton warehouse on Wednesday. The deceased, Mr. Constantine Morphopolous, 39, from Athens, Greece, had suffered severe blows to the head. The police are appealing to the general public to come forward with any information they may have. The body was found in a home made military style body bag in the Astor Steel warehouse in Brixton.
‘That’s it,’ Rebecca spoke directly into the author’s ear. He pulled his head away wincing and held his hand over his ear. ‘That’s who we thought was you. That’s the body we saw.’
The author let go of one side of the paper and placed his finger against Rebecca’s mouth. The man sitting in the facing seat lowered his paper and looked at them. He dropped his eyes to the page they were reading before pulling his copy of The Evening Standard up to his face and flipping back through the pages.
Rebecca shrugged her shoulders and mouthed the word ‘sorry’ back at the author.
She turned, faced forward, and read the front and back pages of the paper hiding the face of the man opposite them. She waited for him to lower the papers and stare over the top at her. When that happened, she was going to stare straight back at him with unblinking eyes. He never lowered the paper once. After reading the article on page six he returned to the back section of the paper he had been reading before. He was a reader-red-herring, a term that Rebecca was hoping to coin, a subcategory of cameo.