Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-26525489-20161115004342/@comment-26525489-20161115005628

Other potential endings (these would begin after the ellipsis points in the story):

1) Trevor awakes on the beach but can't seem to find his friends anywhere. He reports them missing at the Park Ranger station, but is brushed off by the older gentleman working there who tells him there is no use searching for them

2) Similar to the first alternate ending, but Max is the only one missing

3) A younger Park Ranger drags an older, jaded Ranger to the site where he was sure he saw a fire the night before. The find the abandoned campsite, the tent floating in the water, and the car at the trailhead, but there are no sign of the boys. The older Park Ranger brushes it off and tells the younger to call a tow truck and that he will see stranger things if he keeps working there.

4) Trevor wakes up in a different era or place where no one has any memory of the other two boys

5) Trevor wakes up in a mine similar to that of Venerian Marble

6) Trevor wakes up in the Intra Inc. R&D department

7) Trevor wakes up with no memory of the incident at all and both the others missing. Several years later, a few of his other friends drag him back to camp at the lake again. This would make a reference to his unexplainable uneasiness about the lake, leaving the possibility open that this was not the first time it had happened.

Honestly, I think I would be happy with any of those endings. I went with the original ending because I thought it might be nice to have a comedic twist at the end since a few others in the project have gone that route. If it really doesn't work with the rest of the story, though, I would be more than happy to try one of my other options (or any other ideas you guys may have).

Thanks!