Goodreads asked C.C. Standish:

Can you tell us a two-sentence horror story?

C.C. Standish "The Author" by CC Standish. An unknown author sat in his apartment clumsily typing away on his laptop--the usual theme of colossal failure and endless self-loathing--when there was a sudden and sharp knock at the door breaking his focus from the current work that sat before him, finished with the exception of an epic ending; staring him dead in the face like a haunting metaphor for his very own unresolved existence. Rising to his feet, annoyed by his own desperate search for a meaningful outcome, the author lurches towards the door and rips it open only to find no one there . . . with the exception of a self-addressed envelope containing a manuscript at his feet, with a postmark dated 5 years earlier, titled simply: Write Your Own Ending.

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