This brief but moving and captivating story recounts the adventuresimagined by Charlie Mears, a twenty-year-old bank employee withliterary aspirations, whose motivation is to write what he believeswill be ?the best story in the world?. His account, full of veracityand all sorts of realistic details, may seem more like the memory ofanother life than the product of his fantasy, which captivates hisfriend, the narrator of the text, and incidentally the reader. Thestory reflects on writing, the value of art and the difficulty ofmanaging to express accurately what only in the imagination of thecreator seems perfect.