At the Intersection of Fiction & Reality

On the story. If it's all downhill, it feels like a theft to end with the happy. It also feels like a theft if the end undoes to make the happy. The happy feels right if it contains the sense of "It took work to get here, and, for now, we'll ignore those storm clouds off on the horizon." "Verweile doch, du bist so schön." The devil, as always, is in the details or just offstage.