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From the author: Tune in tomorrow for the final chapter. Thanks for reading!
- COMMENTS
joodleover 6 years agoThis is one of those cases where you don’t get many comments because readers are too high on the story and keep flipping to the next chapter. I don’t get many comments on mine so I’m hoping that is the reason. Either way I’m not half the writer you are. The sex was far too vanilla for me, but god, this story is amazing. Truly. Amazing work.
bruce22about 9 years agoIt seemed to me that the ancestor to this story was Wuthering Heights but it much less dramatic and just a painful. Really fine work on the nature of people problems. I know about them all.
WillyVVover 9 years agohttp://www.literotica.com/s/a-strange-arrangement-ch-11?page=4
to
http://www.literotica.com/s/a-strange-arrangement-ch-12
... for future reference and in case the pasted url is blocked
... when you suspect a story has had a chapter added go to the last url
... and add one, if it says Ch. 11, change it to Ch.12
... I have it up and am reading it ... well, almost reading it
... WVV
Anonymousover 9 years ago...I am impatiently waiting for the finale. I won't repeat the superlatives; all of that and more. It strikes me that this story illustrates romantic love and deep, abiding love as two separate things, and that romantic love is not necessarily a prerequisite to the kind of love that can endure for a lifetime. Now days, many people fall in lust and move in together. Sometimes it works out, longterm; often it doesn't. But two people who commit to each other, in sickness and health, for better or worse, can endure and prosper. What Andrew and Gina did is the mirror image of what many couples do when they move in together before marriage: Gina wanted room and board, Andrew wanted a housekeeper who put out. That they learned to love each other and wanted to commit to each other is the story; but of course there is Andrew's wife, Penny, sick and for the worse. How to resolve this? Nageren, how will you untie this Gordian knot?
Anonymousover 9 years agoI really, really, liked this series. Frustrated that the moderators are dragging their feet. That said, I think that concluding this deserves way more than one 3-page literotica episode.
I really hope that you started out with the/a Bronte in mind. This is a serious attempt to write something with emotional content, in particular I really like your riffs on marriage.
Anonymousover 9 years agoGreat story! I can't wait for ch 12! Thanks for the explanation that its pending. :) I thought you were just teasing us! Keep up the good writing!
Anonymousover 9 years agoI've been constantly refreshing the link for chapter 12. 16 hours and still not accepted is a bit much I think :(. It's quite frustrating. I would love to hear more stories from you. If they are half as good as this story has been I'll be happy.
nagerenover 9 years agoAuthorThank you all for the encouraging feedback. This has made my first outing as an author a very positive experience. I submitted Ch 12 the other day and had expected it to post today, but it looks like it's still "pending." The delay is not intentional on my part!
I've tried to craft a realistic but unusual story with believable characters in order to explore how sex expresses and interacts with the wounds and wonders of our journeys. I'm glad it was entertaining for you.
There will be more stories in this series- I'm looking forward to exploring some of the back stories and "after stories" of other characters in Gina and Andrew's world. Questions like, "What made Ian so serious one night when talking about the stars?" "Why was Angelica so...aggressively sexual?" "Was there more to Gareth's story than Gina knew?" "Did Tristan ever grow up?" were outside of the scope of Strange Arrangement, but not outside the scope of what I'd like to write about. So thanks for reading, thanks for voting, and thanks for the feedback- stay tuned!
fanfareover 9 years agonagaren, this has been such a well-written, skillfully crafted storyline. You have really developed your characters and meticulously laid out the trials and tribulations of their lives. And included some quality eroticism.
My life had some parallels to this story. Married for twenty years of heaven and then five years of hell. Heart disease snuck up on my wife and radically changed how active she had been.
Then worse, after a couple of years it became obvious that not only were medicines failing to control the slow progression of the damage to her heart but there were accumulating side-effects.
Partially caused by the disease, partially by the slew of prescription medicines she had to take.
It wasn't until the last year, as her personality radically changed that the Doctors realized she was also suffering a series of micro-strokes damaging her brain.
Towards the end it was obvious that the beautiful, intelligent, vivacious woman I had loved for twenty-five years was disintegrating from the inside out.
Her death was not a surprise but losing my beloved wife was still a shock. She knew what was happening to herself, so it was a blessed release for her in the end.
Quickfingers8over 9 years agoI don't know what drew me to this story, but I was hooked from the first chapter. You write these characters so realistically, with such depth, and have woven a beautiful story around them. It's magnificent.
I know there's one chapter left. I hope you'll do what I think you'll do and they'll be able to be together and they can start on making a real future for themselves. I hope all those little visions Gina had during their last time together become a reality.
I can not wait for tomorrow to get here. I am seriously fighting tears.
