Introducing The Disaster Film Yet It Always Ends Happily Ever After

Film producers are so predictable when they make them though

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Okay, so I am going to have a rant.

Why?

Because if I watch another airy-fairy disaster movie either on television or at the cinema, I am going to demand a refund.

I cast my mind back to when I had just reached my teenage years and was living at home. I always had my head buried in books and drafting short stories which always provided me with a sense of relaxation and a sense of ‘getting away from it all’ for a while.

Back then, I recall one of our neighbors wanting to read a draft of a science fiction story that I had been busy scribbling on, and wow, with the invention of personal computers not having dawned at that point, my wrists were aching madly after ten thousand words.

Anyhow back to my point. He fed back to me with this question, “Oh dear, why do you always write disaster scenes where they never end happily ever after?”

“My story is fictional,” I pointed out to him, “real life does not always turn out like that (happily ever after) so reading this in fiction is refreshing when you know it never actually happened. When you lift your head out of the book you can smile…