by hickoryfarmer
This lady can write. Dry, cynical, skewering... no tearful regrets, but regretting all the same. The thoughts recalled only come with a life perspective, I think.
BRAVA, Hickoryfarmer.
Please write on. Your Tango is sweet, the tempo seducing, in a land of Headbangers.
Not many people can capture the bonds of love and lust in so few words and get it bang on the nail but you just did! Attagirl! Best Valentine's story I've read this year!
Yes I loved it too - but it had a sting: I see a lot of this in my own marriage, and why, oh why is it, that the man humps, or the man bangs, or even fucks - and the woman wants to be seduced, regrets being screwed, aches to be made love to? How come that the woman who wants seduction doesn't seduce? Or jumps the man? Female seduction can be so much more than 'OK I won't say no this time'...
Others have praised your style; brief, poignant and always, it seems, with a little twist at the end. But it saddens me as you reveal so much that is wrong in my life. Why do we do this to the ones we love?