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Aghhh! This sounds SO fun! I love happy endings. This will be great! 😀

I like you ideas @germaine-han! I’m currently working on writing a short story about this young couple who loved playing guitar together but when the wife gets cancer they have to stop. During the fourth year of her cancer battle, the wife asks her husband to play for her again, like they used to, but he can’t bring himself to do it…there are so many memories tied up in playing guitar, so many emotions would resurface, so he refuses. A couple weeks later and she asks again and he almost agrees, but then backs out at the last moment. Then the wife dies and the husband is left to deal with the horrible guilt of not playing when he could have. I was just going to have the story end with him wallowing in his grief and guilt, but it felt too morbid. So I added that in the end, he takes his guitar and plays for the elderly in the nursing home where his wife used to work. It brings him healing and closure. It might be cheesy and cliché but this word prompt made me think of it, so I just thought I’d mention it.🙂

I think it’s important to remember that there’s a difference between a happy ending and a perfect ending. In my opinion it’s the perfect endings that are cliché, while the happy endings can actually be really satisfying. While a story might end with the characters hurting and darkness and evil still existing, the story can still end happy. I think it’s about the hope that you show…hope that even though there’s pain and hurt and sorrow when the story ends, there’s still a chance that the characters can continue to heal and grow beyond the pages of the story. Lord of the Rings is a happy and sad ending for me…so much has happened to Middle Earth and all the characters are changed. There’s this sense of loss for many things good and beautiful, yet there’s still hope and happiness in the end. Great thoughts, by the way @msqueen8. 😀

I think perfect endings are unrealistic and thus annoying. So, we can have a happy ending, just don’t let it be perfect and we should be fine…😛 How we are going to make it good, though, I’m not altogether sure.

I think the last story that we wrote for the word prompt was a good example of a non-cliche happy ending…#notbiasedatall