How should I end this short story??

Question

There are 7 patrons in a diner sharing life stories. The main character is a woman, she just got her eviction notice. There are two elderly men, a middle-aged waitress, a young couple, and a young man. HELP me FINISH!

Answer 1

Resolve the conflict.
Somehow, the evicted woman ends up being invited to live with one of the other patrons. For a quirky twist, make it one of the least likely characters.

For instance, in Kent Haruf's novel, Plainsong, two elderly bachelor brothers take in an unwed teenage mother-to-be, thus forming an unconventional family. Outsiders see it as odd, but they are a family.

Think of it from "outside the box."

Good luck!

Answer 2

Here's what I would do: although the morals of each life story remains the same, each character lies (including the main character) by saying that they are infinitely rich. Why? Because everybody else at the table is.
The truth, however, is that each one of them is as poor as the rest. After learning of everyone's distaste for their families, they make a pact to write each other in their wills, which they do at the table. (If you want to make it ironic, have the main character write hers on the back of the eviction notice.) As the night wears on (you might want a severe winter storm trapping them in the diner overnight) they all conspire and form alliances to kill off the others before daybreak. It should end with the main character and the younger man left as the sun rises. Here, the younger man finally admits that he doesn't have a penny to his name. Incredulous, the main character breaks down, realizing the truth of the situation and what she has done. The man, thinking he has an opportunity, attempts to kill the woman. He fails and dies in the process. Angry and frustrated, she knocks over everything in the diner and begins to tear the will to shreds. She turns on the radio half-heartedly and looks at the shreds of paper. The winning lottery numbers from the previous night are repeated. She realizes the torn will of the middle-aged waitress was on the back of the winning ticket.

Answer 3

Have them all talk about their various problems. The waitress is a single mom with three teenagers that she's trying to support on mimimum wage. The young couple have just discovered that they're going to have a baby, but the young woman knows that her mom had two miscarraiges, so she's worried she might have one too. The single young man is highly intelligent, and is almost through medical school, but he has just had letter from his disapproving father who has decided to stop paying his college tuition, and the young man can't get a job that pays enough for school. One elderly man's loving wife has just died leaving him with three grown-up childen who are not what he raised them to be. The other elderly man's wonderful son has just died in a terrible accident leaving him with a nagging shrew of a wife. The ending should be that they all realize that someone else will always have bigger problems than themselves, but that doesn't mean that their own pain doesn't count. That's also the moral of the story.

Answer 4

Always needs to end in love. Maybe the young man and the woman fall in love. Or the wife in the young couple confesses that she knows that her husband and the main character are having an affair and she will be leaving her husband. So the main character solves her eviction problem by moving in with the woman's husband. Good luck!

Answer 5

It depends on what you want the effect of the story to be.

The young man admits to being rich or in love with her and rescues her.

The elderly man owns the building and decides to let her live there for a year rent free.

The other patrons are part of a cult, they kill her and make drinks from her body.

The young couple have a young child and hire her as a nanny.

The people feel sorry for her and give her money. She goes home. It's a nice home that she owns outright. She changes clothes and her wig and goes to another bar and starts the same sob story again.

The endings are endless. What is the desired effect of the story?
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Answer 6

Have the couple wanting to divorce and then do it on good terms.Have the lady lament over the eviction notice
but then decide that maybe she could do better with her life.Have the young man ask the waitress out on a date and then have her refuse him at first.But realizing that she deserves good things too, she says yes.One of the old men talks about his grown son to the other old man who wishes that he had children.

Answer 7

The main character could turn out to be a reporter doing a humanities piece or just wealthy hermit who can only suffer going outside if she pretends to be someone whom no one will ask money from.

Therefore, the end of your story could have her walking out of the diner, around the corner, and getting into limo.

Answer 8

the middle age waitress has cancer and decides to give all the money she has left to the women with the eviction notice. the ederly men happen to be retired doctors who know a doctor who can cure the waitress os they give her the number. the doctor happens to be the young man and he tells her the cure. the young couple ends up having twins and names them after the 2 elderly men

Answer 9

well the main chacter should meet up with young man and they should talk about there own life stories and get to know each other better and fall in love .The End ! Bj

Answer 10

These 7 almost strangers come together to help this woman through her rough patch and became fast friends in the process. I don't know that was kinda just an on the spot idea.