What AJ expected would be occasional hook-ups soon became an intoxicating yet painful cycle with an emotionally unavailable man she met on Tinder after her marriage ended. 

In this companion novella, AJ Moore takes readers behind the scenes as she writes – and rewrites – The Undoing of My Marriage, her debut prose-poetry hybrid autofiction novel based on the period when she sought fulfilment through an open marriage and the life she’d built began to unravel.

Although written after she’d already completed her debut, Not a Fairytale Ending begins a year earlier, as she enters the third year running of a ‘casual’ relationship with a good-looking and successful man who gives her just enough to keep hope alive, that one day he might change his mind about wanting a relationship.

With the same unfiltered honesty as her debut, Not a Fairytale Ending can either be read as a follow-up, or as a standalone portrayal of modern intimacy, situationships, and what it really means to find yourself after divorce.