Metacognition: Short Story

I'm really not sure how I'm feeling about my short story. I really liked it, until I had to put pressure on my main character, the mannequin. I understand that it is important to the story to challenge the characters, but I don't know if I accomplished this well. With this feeling of insecurity, I wrote the ending of my story. I tried to make my girl sound as confused, desperate and desolate as possible while also keeping rather cool, but I feel as if the ending is too abrupt. I also remember Mr. Allen telling us that the ending shouldn't really be final, but I think one could take mine to be either final or unfinished. Either way, I'm feeling very insecure about it. Because of this, I'm just letting my mind roam free as I write, and not really thinking extremely carefully about every word. (This could prove to be a good thing or a very bad thing)



I wish I could have discussed my ending with Mr. Allen individually, like when we talked to him about the middles of our stories. It would have been nice to have a little bit of direction; right now, I feel as though I'm just slinging words on the doc and seeing what sticks. I really hope my ending works. It would be a bother to rewrite it with little guidance. I'm also worried about the story in general. I know it would be nearly impossible for Mr. Allen to really look at every sentence in everyone's stories, but I almost feel as though my ideas might be good, but once looked at more closely, there will be many problems. I wonder if we'll have more time after this revision to focus on the smaller aspects, or if it will just be assumed that it's perfect, from the inside out?