{"id":11856,"date":"2014-10-01T03:47:43","date_gmt":"2014-10-01T10:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bullmensfiction.com?p=11856&preview_id=11856"},"modified":"2022-08-03T13:15:01","modified_gmt":"2022-08-03T17:15:01","slug":"bullshot-anthony-malone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/fiction\/bullshot-anthony-malone\/","title":{"rendered":"BULLshot: Anthony Malone"},"content":{"rendered":"

PW<\/strong>: Here is the last sentence of \u201cTarzan in Space.\u201d \u201cIt\u2019s just that even now, in the twenty-first century, if you asked me for one example of bravery in the face of the unknown, for someone going above and beyond the call of duty, someone feeling the fear and doing it anyway, if you asked me for one single name from all the great heroes of the human race, the choice of this mad old man would be but a twinkle in my eye, a finger to my lips, and a letter, not a name, that once and forever made us all look up.\u201d How should last lines end stories (what feelings, ideas, etc. should they convey)?<\/p>\n

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AM<\/strong>: \u00a0I used to go out with a girl who loved intellectualising over questions such as these. I\u2019d be secretly writing stories of jungle men coerced into piloting stolen Nazi rocket ships and she\u2019d be deconstructing Anna Karenina. Poor kid. Rich as Croesus now, of course. Me? Well, I\u2019m still scribbling. As for craft \u2013 frankly, I wing it. When it comes to those all important last lines I hope to God something passable will present itself, keep my fingers crossed my naked desperation won\u2019t be decipherable to the reader, try not to embarrass myself. If I\u2019m lucky, the final line will be appropriate to the context. If I\u2019m unlucky, I\u2019ll absolutely settle for the blandly functional. My aim is merely to land the plane. If I pull off a gosh\u2013wow maneuver in the process, then all the better, but I\u2019m not picky. In this racket a damp squib is better than no squib. A line I got from my ex, incidentally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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