Peeking into the rock

I have an ending. I'm struggling with the words. I'm having a hard time getting the sentence structure to do what I want it to do. Beginning a short is easier, I think, than beginning a novel, since in a novel you have much more to set up and you still have the need to develop a fast hook (nobody approves of the leisurely opening any more). Middles are middles, easy or hard as the story makes it: but ending a short is much more difficult than ending a novel, because with a novel you've done so very much that by the time you come to the end, there are only a few different words you could possibly use.