Macey once told me the worst way a story can end is by someone waking up and realising everything that happened was only a dream. “It’s a cop-out,” she said. “All that carefully constructed world building, all those people who you believe in and then . . . nah, it’s a lie and none of it really matters. No one wants that. We read stories, watch shows on TV, and we appreciate they’re fiction. But when they come out and outright admit it, it pisses us off.”
