I Don’t Do “Happy”

Ouch.

I’m not sure about other countries, but in the United States, at least in the movie industry, there seems to be a standard where every movie ends happily. Everyone gets what they want. It works out for them in one way or another. This isn’t so much the case with writing, of course. Especially my writing.

Really, I can’t think of a single happy ending I’ve written. I haven’t written a ton of works, but I’ve penned enough novels, poems, and short fiction to know that, for some reason or ano...