Help, I dont have a life!

[Tamur]

I think the idea is fascinating (a stolen life) and the loss of the robbery explanation was clever of you.

However, I had trouble following this one from the start. A "stole" is a piece of embroidered cloth that priests wear in some Christian faiths. So reading "stole of life" in the first paragraph had me a bit baffled.

I read on and found "life can be stolen like robbers steal a bank" (natively it would be "rob a bank") and thought, Ah-ha, stole as in "I stole the money". That was a phrase I thought would become meaningful later. But the office visit and thoughts of the narrator seemed to have little to do with that phrase.

It ends very abruptly. I'm left with more unanswered questions than answered ones. I'm asking myself at the end: Why will going to the boss end their days of hard work? Did the bank robbery happen three hours ago or five months ago? Who if anyone lost their life to a thief? Have the narrator and William been working together for a long while and know each other, or did they start working together a week ago? Why does the narrator care about William's problems with his wife? and so on...

Hopefully this is helpful in some way