Fansided posted today, "Carrie Remake 2013: Alternate Destinies For Stephen King’s Prom Queen." After going through the normal details of the story, familiar plot turns we all know well by now, Jas Faulkner offers a few suggested -- an unexpected endings.
"Okay, let’s say you didn’t know and you thought maybe Carrie would go home, pin her mom to the ceiling, pack her bags and walk off in the glow of the burning high school, muttering “Sucks to be y’all.” The credits roll. She gets a job in a call center for DirecTV and enrolls in community college, then:
(This is where you pick your adventure.)
1.) Gimme some ropeCheck out the rest of the suggested alternate endings HERE.
Tie me to dream…
Carrie is seated next to her friend, Britta, when a smarmy thirty-something disbarred lawyer hits on Britta. She shoots him down, and then makes a play for Carrie. She telepathically squeezes body parts on the guy until he sounds like Minnie Mouse and then asks him if he wants to join their study group. He nods, she releases her grip, and he weeps in gratitude as she stipulates that he do their homework and provide cheat sheets to the tests for the rest of the semester.
I especially like this scenario for one reason in particular.
ReplyDelete"Carrie wanders into Albuquerque, where a high school chemistry teacher named Walter offers her a job delivering packages. She works her way up to partner after competing “sole proprietors” are mysteriously blown into small rainstorms of taco meat and cheap knockoff sneakers in the desert."
My first response to this was: wait, Walter?
ChrisC