Alternatives to "And They Lived Happily Ever After"


Yes, we know life doesn't always have happy endings - but it took years of medication and unreturned phone calls before we finally accepted it. To help posterity avoid huge therapy bills, we encourage grandmothers, librarians and story-tellers of all sorts to use the following list of alternative endings to fairy tales.

#01

And they stayed together because of the kids.

#02

And she never learned her lesson never to eavesdrop on any of his phone conversations again.

#03

And he realized that money actually could buy happiness.

#04

And with all that alimony, she finally bought the castle she'd always dreamed of.

#05

And he never found out out the child wasn't his.

#06

And eventually, she came to terms with the fact that she was probably going to have to save herself.

#07

And they lived happily ever... until the following winter.

#08

And she never had any idea that he was actually gay.

#09

And eventually she came to terms that her stepmother wasn't evil - just demanding.

#10

And sometimes she wondered whether a kiss that reanimated her from the dead was really grounds for a lifelong romance.

#11

And the three of them lived happily ever after.

By Leonard H.