https://livesteven.com/2026/07/24/changing-the-ending-the-issue-is-not-with-books-so-to-speak-but-with-stories-where-changed-endings-are-only-one-form-of-a-work-which-must-exist-through-history-as-trans/Steve_Bamlett_blogen2026-07-24T15:21:40+00:00Changing the ending? The issue is not with ‘books’, so to speak, but with stories, where changed endings are only one form of a work, which must exist through history as ‘translations, versions, or adaptations of works’ that involve ‘a conversation with an earlier writer’. Let’s choose, then, as so many have already done, a story where conversations with the original are ‘an encounter … across the span of two-and-a-half millennia’. Part Two of an examination of three versions of ‘The Oresteia’ before Simon Stone’s brilliant version: the Family Romancing of White Power in ‘The Oresteia’ of Eugene O’Neill, ‘Mourning Becomes Electra’.dailyprompt, writing, fiction, theatre, review, reviews, eugene-oneill, dailyprompt-2835, the-oresteia, mourning-becomes-electra, versions-and-translations, psychodynamic-literaturehttps://livesteven.com/2026/07/23/cassandras-song-as-wif-of-purchase/Steve_Bamlett_blogen2026-07-23T09:14:18+00:00Cassandra’s Song as ‘Wif of purchase’.dailyprompt, dailyprompt-2831