| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| a73c04c | All the birds who were never born, all the songs that were never sung and so can only exist in the imagination. And this one is Teddy's. | alternate-universe ending heartbreaking heartwrenching imagination kate-atkinson last-lines sad tearjerker teddy-todd twist-ending what-if | Kate Atkinson | |
| 7e33ae3 | Across the world millions of lives are altered by the absence of the dead, but three members of Teddy's last crew--Clifford the bomb-aimer, Fraser, the injured pilot, and Charlie, the tail-end Charlie--all bail out successfully from and see out the rest of the war in a POW camp. On their return they all marry and have children, fractals of the future. | alternate-universe butterfly-effect dead ending fractals kate-atkinson ripple-effect survivors twist-ending | Kate Atkinson | |
| 239bf45 | And with a massive roar the fifth wall comes down and the house of fiction falls, taking Viola and Sunny and Bertie with it. They melt into thin air and disappear. Pouf! | alternate-universe ending fiction fifth-wall kate-atkinson twist-ending | Kate Atkinson |