I like your ideas and writing, and was going to read backwards in yout home page, but I see the description as 'short story' but then it turns out they are not short stories. No mention of a sequel is made, yet the ending cannot be the end of the story, or else it makes no sense.

Oh well, that's life, I should have checked first. Now I'll be left with the question - how did the author imagine the rest of the story?