All Comments on 'An Unusual Life'

Some great comedy routines start with a joke and then go other places and tell lots of funny jokes and then work their way back around and then end up back at that same joke at the very end.

Your story did that. Most of the story had nothing to do with Boston Girl, but for the writer she was always in the back of his mind and the way it wrapped back to the beginning was excellent.

Very good

Please do more

has a moralist boyfriend but fucks guys in his apartment while her husband takes care of her kid at home. Has bareback sex with strangers with no problem and makes and stars in a porno film. Real life huh? Where is the divorce? Where is the firing from her job? Where is the DNA test by her husband that proves the child is or is not his? Where are the medical test for the various STDs, diseases, and HIV? Where is someone in this with an IQ above 50? If you say it is true please try to add some realism. Yes I have known a few women like this most wound up divorced, fired, and working as full time prostitutes/whores to pay for their drug addition and AIDS treatments.

This is narrative literature at its best. Funny, sad, and with a depth of depreciative observation on par with some of the best non-fiction prose. I loved it.

The story should have been in the Non erotic section but I doubt that the author would agree with me. In fact, I believe the author does not realize how sad (and not erotic) this story is. The lives of the characters are not original or daring or authentic as the story implies. Instead, they brilliantly convey (and I am not talking about morals here) un authentic lives, where people live most of the time in lies, acting out sexual fantasies which are disconnected from any intimacy and worse - from their real lives. In short, they leave unrealized life of hide and escape from others, but first and foremost - from themselves. <P>

Had I caught even a hint in the narrative that the author recognizes that the proclaimed aspirations or self identified qualities of the characters are as small and pathetic as their actions, I would have felt that the story provides the reader with some deeper, more mature perspective on life - but I did not see any of it. In that respect, the lack of irony or self deprecation (even implied) were disappointing. <P>

The story is still written extremely well. And all I am left with is a sense of sorrow that we have in Lit. are only two stories by this author, a fact which deprives us of the opportunity to follow his/her writing, perhaps exploring deeper layers of the human condition...