What a Time to Recall! (Parts 1+2 now available)

[DrWhoFanJ]

It’s been over three years now since I predicted the rest of this story so completely and perfectly that CoL asked me to delete it to not spoil the fun for other readers, and yet the originally-intended ending still isn’t here. The wait has gotten so long that I have genuinely considered reposting my original prediction instead just so that other people still have an ending available in the thread!

Ask for permission and then post it if he agrees?

Unfortunately, I appear to no longer have the original screenshot I took at the time for my own use, so asking for permission would be rather meaningless given that it would be an impossible task anyway!

[Freesub]

It’s been over three years now since I predicted the rest of this story so completely and perfectly that CoL asked me to delete it to not spoil the fun for other readers, and yet the originally-intended ending still isn’t here. The wait has gotten so long that I have genuinely considered reposting my original prediction instead just so that other people still have an ending available in the thread!

Ask for permission and then post it if he agrees?

Unfortunately, I appear to no longer have the original screenshot I took at the time for my own use, so asking for permission would be rather meaningless given that it would be an impossible task anyway!

Maybe the mods have a way to access deleted posts with your consent?

[DrWhoFanJ]

Ask for permission and then post it if he agrees?

Unfortunately, I appear to no longer have the original screenshot I took at the time for my own use, so asking for permission would be rather meaningless given that it would be an impossible task anyway!

Maybe the mods have a way to access deleted posts with your consent?

Possibly. I didn’t technically delete the post in question, though; I simply edited it to mark that I had successfully identified where the rest of the story was going.

[Executionus]

I don't think posting a spoiler for the ending does much good, but it's possible that CaughtofLore might give someone else permission to write up the final part of this story using an outline he draws up. I still remember the gist of the original prediction post way back when and it didn't really say all that much. It was just a comment about something he hoped to see happen after the family made it to the store.

[CaughtOfLore]

Hi everyone.

DrWhoFanJ, I feel pretty rotten that I thought it necessary for you to delete your prediction, and sorry it’s now lost to the ages. In retrospect, if I’d known I still wouldn’t have the conclusion posted over three years later, I wouldn’t have suggested deleting the comment. My apologies for being so precious at the time, resulting in an incredibly patient group of people now being left without even an outline of how this story would have ended.

Truth is, I got pretty burnt out with writing. Over the last few years I’ve tried getting back into it, but it takes having the right drive for a particular story for me to work on it, and the spark just hasn’t been there for this one. I’ve also felt kind of embarrassed that I have left several other stories of mine unfinished, and I made the decision that I wouldn’t post anything new unless it was either a conclusion to an existing unfinished story, or a new story that I have completed writing in its entirety before posting.

Long story short, I have a number of half-baked, incomplete stories and chapters, but nothing ready to show. And unfortunately, the final chapter of this story is one of those incomplete pieces of writing.

As Executionus suggested, I’d not be against someone else writing a conclusion if they so wanted. Heck, I have a bunch of fragments from my first draft of the next chapter (that contain a bunch of gaps and peter out to a few bullet points toward the end), and if someone wanted to use those as a starting point I’d be willing to hand them over. Or they could do their own thing entirely. If it helps put some closure on this story, I’m all for it... but I don’t think I’m going to have the right drive to get it done myself any time soon. Sorry!