What I Know About Lying
Lying is work. It takes effort to Convince, to Avoid, to Persuade, to carefully Select details. That effort leaks through in contradictions, in missing pieces, in awkward pronoun shifts, in stories that sound rehearsed instead of recalled. Liars try to manage the truth, but in doing so they leave fingerprints. They polish too much, repeat themselves, and explain when no explanation was asked for. What I know about lying is this: it is rarely seamless. It leaves cracks, gaps, and signals. You just need to know where to look, and CAPS is how I look.