Short story: The Morality Maze
‘Just one day at work. Just one game-changing decision.’
Oscar is just another English traveller in Australia. Doing the usual traveller things.
That is until he takes a job cleaning hotel windows and peers inside room 386 — where everything changes.
Did he see what he thinks he did, or is it just his imagination running wild? Oscar’s mettle is tested in a way that he never envisaged.
He ultimately faces a dilemma, one which shakes his morality to the very core.
Extract from The Morality Maze:
“ …his round-the-world trip is delivering on many levels, but until now, he’s trodden identical paths to those of his travelling predecessors. In that respect, the first four months of this Australian leg have been barely worth a postcard. But this situation is already taking this trip to a new unexpected level and depending on which way the pendulum now swings, it could invite halcyon days. Days that would be unattainable on his shoestring budget; that were not included in his travel agent’s spiel. This wasn’t part of Oscar’s Australian vision; it’s already become much more.
For much of today Sydney Harbour has been the focus of his lofty panorama, but he now finds himself back on firm ground; back on firm ground staring at the biggest dilemma of his life. This knot in his stomach, born some nine hours previous, has tightened, but is now the least of his worries. It is ousted by something that is testing every strand of his moral fibre. Personal studies of morality don’t come much bigger, and then karma is always lurking, ready to make a cameo. Mentally, he is running on fumes…”
The Morality Maze is published in: An Eclectic Mix - Volume Ten: A Collection of Short Stories and Poems.
