So as I’m working on the ending for “The Diary of Destiny King”, I suddenly had the inspiration to write a little bit about the different kinds of endings that I’ve seen and read in other stories.

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Easy Happy Ending: You flush the toilet and everything goes down smoothly.

Suspenseful Happy Ending: You flush the toilet and expect that it’s going to clog, but right when you’re about to use the plunger, everything goes down slowly.

Messy Happy Ending: You flush the toilet and you need to plunge it, but after a few seconds it goes down the drain.

Stressful Happy Ending: You flush the toilet and don’t have a plunger, but as it’s about to overflow, the toilet unclogs on its own.

Shocking Ending: You flush the toilet and even though it’s completely empty, it still overflows.

Tragic Ending: You flush the toilet and it clogs, but you don’t have a plunger. Urine and feces cover your bathroom floor and you need to use towels to create a barricade, in order to stop the filthy sewage from escaping under the door.

Over Dramatic Ending: You flush the toilet and it clogs, but you don’t have a plunger. Urine and feces cover your bathroom floor and you need to use towels to create a barricade, in order to stop the filthy sewage from escaping under the door. However, you didn’t account for the fact that there’s a hole in the floor near the bathtub, which allowed copious amounts of toilet water to spill down into the kitchen. You slip and fall, cracking your head open onto the edge of the sink. While you’re unconscious, there’s an earthquake and the house collapses.

The Beginning of a Story That I would Write: You flush the toilet and it clogs, but you don’t have a plunger. Urine and feces cover your bathroom floor and you need to use towels to create a barricade, in order to stop the filthy sewage from escaping under the door. However, you didn’t account for the fact that there’s a hole in the floor near the bathtub, which allowed copious amounts of toilet water to spill down into the kitchen. You slip and fall, cracking your head open onto the edge of the sink. While you’re unconscious, there’s an earthquake and the house collapses. You wake up a few days later, almost completely recovered from your injuries, realizing that the world you used to know was gone. An asteroid exploded in the air above your home and released copious amounts of mana-radiation, which is slowly causing all life on Earth to mutate. Everyone is developing supernatural powers and you quickly discover that you have a magical ability… to unclog toilets with your mind.