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RE: Nathan's waterfall: A 50-word short story
It is to be hoped that the bridge is but a hop, skip and jump away and Nathan is a few feet from his mother, but invisible to her through the waterfall. However, in accordance with Murphy's law, it is likely instead that he has fallen and only his spirit remains where air and light are close.
Nice one!
I was going to write something similar, but I think you hit it on the head with this one. Now I feel like I should try and find a completely different way to end it. Something that doesn't involve Nathan dying.
Or aliens.
Hmm. Aliens did not occur to me at all.
Ohhh... aliens. There's another good theory!
Those were the two possibilities in my mind as well, @deirdyweirdy. I'm going with the hopeful version! But the author hereby bequeaths the truth to the readers' imaginations.
That's interesting. So you actually had two possible outcomes in your own mind, deciding on neither. I'll have to give that a try. When I wrote mine I had no positive outcome in mind, yet most people in the comments gave it a positive spin.
Yes, sometimes I feel it is open-ended and up to interpretation. (Or perhaps I'm just lazy!)