Paul Otteson, parent of two former New School students, returned to teach a 3-session workshop on story structure, with an emphasis on how to end stories or story segments. Exercises included learning about six classic styles of ending stories (resolved, unresolved, implied, twist, tie-back, ‘crystal ball’), writing endings in these styles, matching story openings and endings of published works, writing endings to provided paragraphs, and more. Students also considered how their own pieces end or could be ended, and they worked through guided writing and sharing. Activities were supplemented with casual vocabulary buidling and a ‘mad-libs’ exercise.