Weekly Prompt: The End
What must come will come. All that begins, must end.
Welcome to the last weekly challenge for February, where our theme is twisting Love into Hate or back the other way:
We knew this day would come — it comes for us all.
All stories must end, and all endings are where the consequences land. All the machinations, the hopes and the dreams. The struggles and fight. Every thread, every action drives towards this moment.
No pressure.
It’s now that we end it happily or destroy utterly, and leave your reader pondering a lesson.
It’s now we choose if Romeo dies and if it’s Juliet that kills him.
If the Beast consumes Beauty gnawing on her spine or if love transforms him.
Or if hate consumes him. If the beauty you chose can even change him.
Or is it the kind that breaks and corrupts? Then let that corruption come to a head and destroy what it must.
If you’ve told a longer serial, then this week is when it ends.
Detective Frank Banning blasts his way into his own Redemption, where perhaps, JenX may send The Hands to meet his maker. Or not.
If you’re writing standalone stories.
Then give us someone new to cherish and end their struggle for good or for bad. Show us the last moment of a journey and don’t forget the twist in their lover’s tale.
The unseen sting or the lucky, happy ending.
But try a trick out before you end things.
Write, briefly, as many endings as you can muster. Three, five, ten whatever comes out.
Then skip the first one, because it’s usually the most obvious.
Challenge Requirements
Your story must:
- Tell us a fictional story related to The End for their love, their lives or their story.
- Be min 100 and max 1000 words long, excluding the title, subtitle, and any post-story bio/links. (We use Medium’s own word count feature.)
- Use “The End” as one of your five tags. We recommend Fiction, Flash Fiction and maybe your genre too. But it’s your choice.
- Please link back to the prompt so others can find it easily.
Example Story:
First published story for this prompt goes here.
