Shoe by Gary Brookins and Susie MacNelly for March 25, 2023

Pick a title and then everything will fall into place…..

I started my third book last night. The way the other two went and likely this one, it’s that last part that seems to evade me.

Knowing what the ending is can be a big help in writing a story. I have published a number of Halloween and vampire short stories in paper magazines, and they have been surprisingly easier to write than when I first started. It’s sort of like one plot idea naturally leading to the next—-you’ll know what to write when you get to that point in your story. The End!

Maybe a kick in the rear end from Shoe would help.

He must have been the screenwriter for Christopher Nolan’s “Memento”.

Do like the hippies used to do,hold a sign saying today’s the end!!!

I’m gonna sit right down and write myself a letter

In newspaper parlance, the correct way to end a story is with the number 30 …. not The End.

A small chore, Cosmo.

In the end, it was only the echo of the shot that suddenly rang out on the first page.

It was a dark and stormy night …

Or, make a song out of it.

“This is the end, beautiful friend

This is the end, my only friend….

The End lyrics © Doors Music Company, Doors Music Co

I guess it’s going to be about the apocalypse.

Doing that now. Love this strip.

Great, brilliant, true and funny too, thanks Gary and Susie…

THE BEGINNING!

No, that’s worse.

Reverse engineering!!!

The eastern thing of the westbound animal. Th Th That’s all folks!