Happy Endings

Second entry, and no slip ups yet, Let's start shall we.  First off, the third story was my favorite, due to how interesting and complex it was, and second off, I loved what the author did to make this story.  The story surrounds around two main characters, and starts with a main story, which is titled "A" which has alternate endings below that consecutively go down the alphabet each alternate ending.  The end of these stories always ends up connecting back to the original.  The original story called "A", although the most boring, is that two main characters, John and Mary fall in love and die old together.  Because the other stories—no matter how grim they get—connect back to this nice boring story, the short story in total is titled Happy Endings hence the "happy endings" in story "A".  Now to my reactions: loved the story, I was laughing at how out of hand the situations got in these stories, in the third one, letter C, the main character John is cheating on his wife with a hot twenty year old lady and elderly, then finds his paramour high in her house having sex with another guy, buys a hand gun, kills her and her paramour and then kills himself.  Meanwhile his wife just marries another guy, and the story goes back to the happy ending.  I just love the craziness of this story!  Towards the end it focuses on elderly John's old wife and her new husband Fred but always goes back to the happy ending, which although a little dull is still interesting considering that I had to read "A".  The only part that I didn't like about this story is the entire ending, where they talk about "inserting your own thing here" and "all you need to do is add a what and a what and a what" because I feel that it wouldn't have dulled down the content of the story had the author just ended it at the last possible implausible ending.  What I did like about a part of the ending was how the author said that the only authentic ending in this story is the one where both John and Mary die, I have to give the author credit for that, I liked it.  Overall a nice story, and minus the part where the author breaks the fourth wall and gets up in our face about the story nice job!

G.

John, who is a banker that makes millions of dollars a year is married to an ex-strip-club dancer named Mary who only married John for his money. Mary who is 25, hot and ready to party hates living with 36-year-old John, and has long been looking for a chance to cheat.  One day, while at a strip mall, an underwear model named James walks up to her and asks her if she wants to go out.  Eventually after several dates, Mary finds herself in James' bedroom taking off her clothes in front of James until she feels guilty and runs away crying to profess her affection to the always caring, always nice John.  Little does Mary know that John has been cheating with a college cheerleader named Madge, who at the moment she entered was putting on her clothes hastily.

Surprised by what has happened, Mary begins to cry, and John tells her to leave and never come back.  Three weeks after she leaves, the loneliness he feels in his 2-story-mega-mansion creeps to close to him, and he resorts to a life of drinking in which he quits his job, files for bankruptcy, and ends up at a hospital dying of Cirrhosis.

Mary has moved to San Diego where she met a nice man named Fred, marries him, and everything continues as in A, except with different names.