Some very strong ending paragraphs here.

I'm glad to hear you say so as I was double-guessing myself the whole way through.

Thanks much for having given this one a look, very much appreciate it.

"The hell's with you?" Are you sure you don't mean "The hell's wrong with you?"

Oh, oops, looks like I missed that. Thank you for catching it.

Despite the mistakes, I'm very much grateful that you would give this one a read, really means a lot.

I'm with Helix. That's a strong ending! Also, good, visceral descriptions of the monsters they encountered.

I'm very much glad to hear you say you thought the ending came out well enough. I do feel I could have done better with the monsters but given they weren't even present at the time did present a little bit of a challenge.

I very much appreciate you having given this one a look, very much grateful for that.

well... the word I came up with was 'dark'... it was a good read none the less, but, yeah... dark...

Vix

Sorry, kind of trying to stick with a spooky/scary theme for spook-tober.

Regardless, thanks much for having given this one a read, really means a lot.

Conceptually, I love this. It really gets into the tortured psychology in his head and makes you feel his anguish with being the only one that made it out of that mess.

Not sure if this concludes that particular narrative line, but if it does, it's honestly not a bad way to execute an unhappy but meaningful ending.

I'm glad to hear you thought I managed his inner turmoil well here, I was a bit worried it was coming across as too forced or even too vague.

It seems you've already noticed the immediate follow up that rounds out this fellow's adventure though now that you've mentioned this being an adequate ending I almost wish I had just refined this one a bit more and let it end here.

I'm very much grateful that you keep coming back every so often for these, thanks so much for that.

Eh, just call the other part the "Director's cut."

In reading other comments here, it looks like others may have seen this as a potential ending point as well. In my honest opinion, I do think this would have been the best place to cut it. Though in defense of the next part, there is some catharsis in bringing certainty to the fact that facing that trauma again would have been inevitable, had it not ended as it did. I suppose it really just boils down to whether you want the reader to know for sure, or be left to wonder how it might go. In that regard, I'd expect a poll to show preferences all over the place.

Ahhhhh back to our dalmatian friend! I was starting to wonder if this was a prequel. I'm very curious where this story will go, and how much more torment his mind is going to face!

Dalmatian friend isn't doing so good right now...

It really means a lot to me that you'd take the time for this one, very much appreciate it.

Well done!

Uhm... hmm... Y-yeah, h-he did it!

Thank you very much for having given this one a read, really means a lot to me.