Endings

Here you'll find the endings. Are they what you had predicted?

hopped up the front steps, and rapped sharply on the metal storm door with its beak. After a moment, the door opened and the chicken went in.

and I saw the compassionate eyes of my husband.

“No,” I said. “But what are the chances of your making the same mistake twice in your lifetime on two different coasts?”  

All the stories were taken from:

True Tales of American Life

(Edited and introduced by Paul Auster)

Faber and Faber, 2001 (London)