Carl MuckenhouptThere's this thing I like to do sometiems that I call the Owl Creek Bridge Game. I thought for sure I had mentioned this before here on Mastodon but it doesn't show up in a search of my posts. The idea is that you take a work of fiction and add the unexaminable assumption that the viewpoint character dies at some point in the story without realizing it, after which the rest of the story is either a dying dream or the afterlife. And you try to figure out where in the story this happens.
⁂ L. Rhodes@CarlMuckenhoupt Pretty easy for hard boiled detective stories. Their protagonists almost always get knocked unconsious at some point.
@lrhodes In some cases, they get knocked out more than once over the course of the story, and the tricky part is figuring out which was the fatal one.