Trifecta: Week Thirty-Nine

Samuel R. Delaney says, “Endings to be useful must be inconclusive.”  What do you think?  Do you prefer a tidy, clean finish to a book or do you like a little bit left unsaid?

Here's what we like: Writing In The Margins, Bursting At The Seams and her exciting wrap-up, Apricot.  The chipping away of nail polish and the number of the train helped create the setting and build us up for wondering why Isodora prefers blood red.

As she waited for the nine-seventeen train, watching lingering farewells and ecstatic reunions, Isodora smiled to herself and picked away her apricot nail polish. It’d been his favorite color. She preferred blood red.

Second place this weekend goes to Misener Miscelany for his haunting denouement, This is the end, beautiful friend, the end...  Here, it ends with a hiss not a bang.

Third place goes to Jester Queen for her real-life ending to her already-published book, Divorce, A Love Story.  Pretty impressive stuff.

Congratulations to our winners and thank you, again, to everyone who helps us out with comments.  Incidentally, if you too have a book published somewhere, feel free to leave a link in the comments section of this post so we can all check it out.

On to this week's prompt.  For inspiration this week, we took to our Meet Your Fellow Trifectans meme, where two Trifectans (Marie Nicole and R.L.W.) suggested the same one-word prompt.  If you haven't already, please consider clicking over and completing the questionnaire yourself.

Your prompt this week is the third definition of:

HEART (noun)

1: a hollow muscular organ of vertebrate animals that by its rhythmic contraction acts as a force pump maintaining the circulation of the blood
2: a playing card marked with a stylized figure of a red heart
3: personality, disposition <a cold heart>

Please remember:

• Your response must be between 33 and 333 words.
• You must use the 3rd definition of the given word in your post.
• The word itself needs to be included in your response.
• You may not use a variation of the word; it needs to be exactly as stated above. 
• Only one entry per writer.

Good luck!