While I respect creative choice
I think that stories ought
To have a triumph at the end
After a war hard fought
The victory concludes a tale
And Romulus builds Rome
After a journey changes him
The hero returns home
The Hobbits claim the scoured Shire
Odysseus gets back
The fighters dance through dogfights and
Refuse to bend to flak
The snap’s reversed and Thanos felled
And Fagin’s taken out
The armies of the Narnians clash
After a fateful bout
The reason why these resonate
Why narrow wins can ring
Why whisper thin coincidence
Fill epics that we sing
Is simply that the story’s true
The eucatastrophe
When God came down to earth and died
For everyone and me
But though the darkness filled the sky
The curtain tore in two
And dead were raised and walked the streets
The earthquakes knocked askew
But though that doom appeared the end
There’s still another act
For Christ arose after three days
Abandoned his grave tract
Defeated death, put dark to flight
Freed us from evil, sin
The greatest story ever told
Ends with unlikely win
tl;dr stories should have happy endings because our stories have happy endings
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I’ve aimed to prove my point by endeavoring to write happy endings to some of her stories, you can read them here: lb