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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BigTom" data-source="post: 2360152" data-attributes="member: 16366">I would like to thank the judges for their time and their analysis.  Two judges mentioned the story seemed to have an abrupt ending, and this is absolutely true.  I got to the end of the first draft and realized I had a story that was 5700 words and absolutely no time left for the editing it truly needed, so I had to make a lot of fast decisions and quick rewrites, and the ending defintely suffered for it.The one thing I cut that I absolutely should not have cut was how Andor was supposed to discover the demon's nature.  What was supposed to happen was that the demon was trying to lure Andor into another room with an illusionary floor.  Since the demon could fly, it could walk across the floor.  Andor wouldn't have that option.  His spotting the floor was what lead him to realize what he was up against.  At the end, I chopped this for word count and it absolutely muffed things up.I also had a wrap up to the story that I think would have addressed some of your issues, but again I had to lower the word count and a straight cut got me 500 words.I plan to fix this up and post the final version in the story area.</blockquote>