The Ends Of The Story
—Or, “How the Author Finishes.” A woman’s mind wanders through a dirty short story and gets sucked into it.
Thakerina read the entire story, slogging through all 10,000 words. She liked to look for new stories in her favorite genres, and always read them all the way through out of respect for the author’s efforts, no matter what. The end. She had no idea what the story was about. As stories go, that one was unremarkable. Immediately forgettable. No idea. Scrolling back a few paragraphs, she reread a random passage and sort of r...