"It made sense to talk about the ending of the story this month"

Another month of writing and more great stories.

Hints:

After talking about the importance of the beginning of a story in March, it made sense to talk about the ending of the story this month.  There were three options we looked at:

1. Leave the reader satisfied.
2. Leave the reader to decide what really happened/happens. The book “If I Stay” by Gayle Forman is a good example.
3. Leave the reader wanting more – a cliffhanger.  Although the cliffhanger is more for the end of a chapter of an ongoing story or a series of books.  For our short stories it is more relevant to be the end of a paragraph.

But all three still need to leave the reader satisfied!

Our challenge:

This month we were challenged to identify original quotes from altered phrases.  For example:

• “There’s no location like my abode!” = “There’s no place like home.”
• “I have brain waves, therefore I’m here.” = “I think, therefore I am.”

Some of our Stories:
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Vegies Rule: How Margot enjoyed her vegetables and found her perfect partner in a vegetarian.
The Thief: Life in a boarding school.  During the term suddenly a thief was amongst them, and when they decided who it was, she was never “forgiven or forgotten”.
Ambrosia: The start of a fantasy around elves, pixies, winged horses and dragons and probably more.
Ronald’s Funeral: A supposed long lost son talking at his father’s funeral, when in fact the son had died many years before.  It was a plot to cover for his mate who was trying to burgle the father’s home.
A Day to Remember: Surviving a bombing and realising he should never take things for granted.

Prompts:

The prompts for our May class are:

• Who’s that woman in the photo?
• My best friend is a ghost.
• Helen dropped the last of his photographs into the trash.

Joy Shirley