The Shack Alternate Ending

The only sound was that of the cold and unforgiving wind gusting violently throughout the seemingly deserted shack. Dark and ominous clouds had begun to cover the already grey sky, giving the cold day an even darker and eerier appearance. The shack was located in the center of a valley surrounded by tall, bare mountains. The remnants of the once majestic forest stood destroyed; the wood decayed and the once tall and mighty trunks of the old tired trees falling to the ground. Suddenly a new sound began to permeate the air, barely noticeable at first until it became so loud and grating that it was the only sound. It filled the entire deserted valley with its desperate cry of pain and longing for something long gone. This terrible sound

There was no mirror and she remembered that she had not felt well the night before, and there were only two possible solutions; she was dreaming or worse, that she was dead and a ghost. Julie grasped hopelessly at the fact that she was dreaming and that the terrifying figure before her was nothing more than a figment of her imagination. Julie stood stone still for 10 minutes and took deep breaths to try and get out of the dream before she realized that it was no dream. She would have to face the fact of being a ghost. Julie collapsed to the ground and put her hands in her head as she tried to remember what had happened in her life. To further add to the pain that Julie had just received from being dead, was the pain that Julie could not remember anything that had happened in her life, just what had happened since she had woken up. Coming to this realization, Julie frantically searched the small shack for anything that would provide even the smallest bit of information that would tell her who she really was and why she was in the shack. After frantically searching for what seemed hours, but in reality was only ten minutes, Julie found an envelope that was addressed to a courtroom with the return address being Julie’s name. Julie frantically opened the letter to learn what she was doing in this shack and to hopefully find out why she was reduced to nothing but a ghost. As Julie