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Happy Endings

Mary Goes to Paris

A.    Mary was a good daughter.  She held down a good job while living with her elderly mother who was in failing health.  Because she was ill, she tended to lash out at her daughter about the slightest thing.  One day at work Mary was contacted by a neighbor who called the ETM.  Mother went off in an ambulance.  Mary rushed to the hospital but by the time she reached the hospital her mother was dead.  It took some time as she cleaned up all the details of her mother’s life to really grasp what her own life would be like now.  She wasn’t used to calm, ease, casualness.  since she was the sole beneficiary of her mother’s will and insurance policy, she now had a nice chunk of money, could now live exactly the way she’d always wanted.  At last, she could put  all those taped courses in French to use.

B.   Mary was an only child.  As she grew from dependent childhood her mother clung to her ever  more, resenting her dawning maturity and eagerness for independence.

Beauty and the Beast

Beauty, from the moment of her birth had been told repeatedly that she was a beauty.  She was led to believe that beauty was the most desirable, sought-after state and so lived many years of her life secure in knowing she was a beauty, though she had never in her life seen her image.  It was made sure nothing reflective existed in their world.  Even bodies of water in which she might delight narcissistically at her image were covered with thick, green algae.

As she lived within this delusion she had one companion whom she had known since childhood and he was the beast.  The unfortunate beast had been orphaned young and Beauty had been his only companion.  (STOP)

Read All About It

Headline:  Church Deacon is traced to stolen church valuables.

It is learned that a long established fixture in the -------- community that an active member of the local parish of St. Simeon has been stealing, then stashing in an underground vault many valuable works of art, sterling silver crosses, solid gold chalices, that were disappearing, not only from his own parish but also surrounding parishes.  Because he was so widely respected he had unquestioned access to many of the churches and rectories and convents in the suburbs of -------.  When this cache was discovered he claimed he was holding them for safekeeping.

Beginnings and Endings

Martin had lived to a secure middle age before it was revealed to him that he’d been a foundling, an infant of unknown parentage left in a dumpster.  This was the most dismaying thing for Martin to accept, that his parent(s) thought of this infant as garbage whereas he’d been raised and cared for thoughtfully and lovingly by his adoptive parents who, being immensely wealthy, granted his every desire.

Stella could not believe it, that she was going to die, here in these degrading circumstances, she who had led such a thoughtful life, to find herself in this inextricable, humiliating situation.