Wattpad brings you a guest post from help-me-think-of-one, author of White Lies, a Watty Awards 2011 winner:
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Lying is one of the lesser noble instincts that a human being possesses. Stretching the truth is a main reflex that we all have when dealing with a potentially tricky or humiliating situation. The question is knowing how much is too much, and knowing when to draw boundaries.
Jessabel Griffin doesn’t have boundaries when it comes to telling lies. Nope – in fact, she gets quite a kick out of it. When she was a little girl, she lied about her Daddy being an astronaut. On her first day at Greymare, she pretended to be a British albino on the run from an African tribe, who believed that albino blood cured all diseases.
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And when her best friend – her only friend – mysteriously went missing, she lied about that too.
Sooner than she expected, she found herself trapped in an intricate web of lies
– lies more dangerous and powerful than she could have ever imagined. With
the wealth and power of Alistair’s elite families, a shiny new revolver, and an
annoyingly charming boy by her side, she untangles the web string by string and
finds the one thing she swore she’d never tell – the truth.
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While most of us aren’t on the ‘Level 5: Jessabel Griffin’ scale of compulsive lying,
we’ve all fibbed a little here and there. It’s only natural of course – I mean, what
else are you supposed to do when you’ve forgotten to do your homework? What
else can you say when you’ve been given a really lame present for Christmas?
We throw common lies around frequently, but one lie too many, and you could
tangle yourself up. Here are some of my favourite – and most highly believable -
‘white lies’:
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5. “I never said that.”
What? How could you believe that I said something like that? Does our
friendship mean nothing to you?
4. “I’m almost there.”
Make sure you’re not calling from your home phone when you say this.
3. “Oh, I’ve had this for ages!”
No really, no. I bought it two days ago from Forever New, but it was half-priced
and you can’t know that.
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2. “I’m 17, 6”5’, male, muscular built, tan…”
Or at least that’s how you think I look, hidden in the dark, chatting you up
online… Mwuahahaha.
1.“Oh yeah. I get it now.”
Actually, I still don’t get the math equation. But having you explain it to me for
the 9th time will make me look stupid. Now shoo. I’ll copy off of that guy.
So heed my warning. Don’t go pulling a Jessabel whenever you need a good
cover-up. One way or another, you’re always caught. Keep it simple, keep it
believable, and STOP GIGGLING. I mean it.
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