Hi everybody! I'll break the silence on this board. I'm taking the Short Story class and I'm stuck for an ending. Or at least my daughter tells me my ending "sucks" so I'm needing some help to revamp. I'm writing a story about a home invasion. The villain comes to the door--he is expected b/c he works with the husband. The son and wife are home, they get tied up, yadda, yadda, dad comes home and gets popped on the noggin' and tied up, yadda, yadda. The son is tied and left at home to be dealt with later when the villain comes back for anything he wants to steal. Meanwhile the parents are carted off to be killed. They attempt to escape and fail, but try again and succeed. The bad guys go to jail and the family moves away.* They are so traumatized by what has happened that they don't want any ID trails, so they don't have a bank account, they only use Virgin phones, etc. The villain gets out of jail and finds them. How? Well, it seems that the son is in cahoots with the villain all along. The Dad made a fortune in business and the villain and the son want to kill mom and dad and get their money. How do I end that? Be brutal about the story line, too. OK, fellow writers, let me hear from you! Thanks, Jocelyn *Actually, this actually happened to a friend of mine. Scary, huh?