Why is marriage always the end of the story?

This is exactly the kind of question that usually makes me feel like
throwing a classic storyteller’s hissy fit; yet here I am asking it.



People usually think of “all stories” in terms of the classic fairy tale
canon, the list of tales solidified by years of telling and re-telling, and
also by Disney. You know the ones I am talking about. Even when you are a
storyteller with long years of