Do you like a cliffhanger?
A story that traps you, makes you want to know what happens next, and then doesn’t tell you?
I hate them. I just hate them. And when you, my bloggin’ buddy do it to me, well, I remember.
A little while ago, I read another damn cliffhanger, this time from Doobster at Mindful Digressions. Doobster wrote half of a really great story. A mystery. His characters are realistic, the scene and plot work. The dialog flows.
UNTIL IT STOPS.
I yelled at him. But he won’t finish it for me.
Would you?
Go on over there to Doobster’s, read it, and tell me what happens. http://mindfuldigressions.com/2015/01/31/i-seen-it-all/
Please leave the comments over there at Doobster’s — he likes his stats. You can also leave them here if you want. I’d turn off comments, but well, I’m not only mystery-plot challenged, I am comment-stopping challenged. Yeah, I know. First World Problems.
Please go and read his story and finish it for me. I gotta know what happens.
Thanks! You’re the best.
FiftyFourandAHalf 
Sorry, he’s marked his blog as private & I’m not part of the “in” group I guess.
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Actually, and sadly, he suddenly stopped blogging. So it’s not you, it’s him :(. It sad because he was fun and interesting.
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Endings are the hardest part of story-telling. I say just skip them.
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Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh
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GAH!!!! I told Doobs to finish it. That was a great read, all the way up to it not ENDING!
That X! I liked how he finished it.
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Ditto. All of the above!
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Don’t you hate it when writers run out of ideas? I know I do!
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I’m pretty forgiving unless they leave me hanging!
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I am just a pawn in your silly games.
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Aren’t we all?
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I guess
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Hold on … you yelled at him, and he didn’t do what you said? I say behead him!
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I know. Can you believe it? But since ISIS came along, I have become less apt to use that particular tactic.
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Understandable … then again severing other parts falls in the same light.
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True. I will need to reexamine my whole life …
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Okay, Elyse, I posted my ending on Doobster’s post, and I think you might enjoy it.
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It was perfect. Just perfect!
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I know what happened.
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Wait, what! Did you see it too?
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Well, no, I didn’t see it, but I’ve seen this story before. I know what happened. Think Of Mice and Men.
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Poor Lenny.
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Totally. Always liked that story and hated what happened to Lenny.
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Me too. Why can’t I write like Steinbeck?
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I can only write like me. And these days that means not at all. 🙂
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Then apparently we write very much alike!
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The woman was me. I was shoveling a gigantic snowbank, couldn’t take it anymore and threw myself in front of a city snowplow.
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You’re supposed to preclude statements like this with ‘Spoiler Alert.’ Nice work. Why don’t you tell us how Apollo 13 ends while you’re at it?
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Apollo 13 was meant to be a cliffhanger.
We won’t know what happened until they release Apollo 14.
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Well, when you find out, keep it to yourself. Don’t be like Little Miss Spoiler up there.
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Darla is just that kind of girl, Mark.
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An innocent or downright malicious? It’s a thin line that separates them.
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A little of both. That’s why I love her!
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Me, too. 😉
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[gasp] What?? A thin line????
You’re right. The thinnest.
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Me too. Anorexic. What were we talking about?
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Ooh, you are annoyed, aren’t you …
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Ummm…no. Not really. Does is sound like it? I thought I was being risque.
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I’m just joking too. Writing is so hard sometimes …
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Sometimes?
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The Apollo cliffhanger is what happened to the tool who did what Nixon told him to do when he destroyed the tools needed to build another rocket to another place.
Oh, and why Tom Hanks made that Robinson Caruso movie.
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I thought the Tom Hanks movie was an inteleectual piece about the forbidden love between a man and his sports equipment?
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The girl in me just doesn’t get men and sports. Basketball game que-ing up. ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
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I feel so much better for knowing, Darla. Sucks to be you though, don’t it?
(I do have sympathy for you though. And spring will come. Some day)
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Yes, it sure does suck to be me. DAMN! First I have to tunnel my way out of my driveway this morning because we have TEN FOOT SNOW DRIFTS, THEN I fall down on the ice while snow blowing, THEN Mark tells me I’m malicious. That is it. I give up.
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No no no!
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I don’t know what happened to the woman, but I’m just glad she isn’t me! (I’m having enough trouble working on my own WIP today. Apparently my creativity has taken the day off. Our maybe I just have no drive…)
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Maybe instead of Darla (see above — or below) in the comments. Maybe you were the woman in the alley. Just takin’ a break, though!
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And here I thought you were going to create an ending for it yourself. But no, instead you reach out to your 4,000+ followers and put the monkey on their backs. Sheesh. Well, I hope at least one of them chooses to bail you out of this one, Elyse.
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Me too. My followers are the best. The very best. Did you hear me followers?
I might have taken up the challenge, but I really don’t have any luck with mysteries. In fact when I read or watch them, I still never quite figure them out. I still do it though. Watch and read them. Not write. Nope. Not me.
Anybody out there??? Anybody got a minute????
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