All Comments on 'Lightning and Chainsaws'

This story had flavor and depth. It's probably curious2c's best story, and this author has been around a long, long time.

than revenge. This isnt one of the husband saying it was my fault I took her for granted and she did what she narually would. It was she chose, she did, and I ended it. People like the wife and his "best friend" are some of the worlds worst people, to stupid to breed.

Excellent read. Loved it.

What a refreshing way to tell the story, upside down. And well told, too. A fun read.

The damn computer is acting up, again. I can't get to that 12-star rating system! {sigh} .... Seriously: Wonderful story, good writing, and a truly unique plot line.

-- KK in Texas

A well woven tale from the man's point of view. I laughed up a storm thinking of the word pictures you painted. Fairy tales are most always a delight to read. Plese keep writing. You provid a lot of enjoyment to many people.

yes there are a few picky points but they don't bother my enjoyment of your efforte :-)

I love a good story and this one is a winner. The way it was handled was perfect. I can just picture the tree laying on the trucks, perfect revenge. Thanks for this one!

Great story. It flowed really well and was fun to read.

Had a great time reading it.

Now that is a well told story. One can see, hear, and feel the situation and the characters. One of the best on this site.

Enough said. Wonderful read. Thank you.

Reread some stories of the author from years ago. He does fine work but is always getting better. It is possibly the best loving wife story this year

Thanks for taking the time to post this one. Loved reading it. Well put together.

......this story was good, wonderful, excellent, superb, well read, outstanding, best ever will be an understatement. I'm loss of words right now. All I can say is THANK YOU.

beautiful story. The way you you described everything was lovely. I liked "Ol lady Frazier's" character it was well potrayed. Thanks for the story it was refreshing.

This was a delightful way for you to get back to posting here. I enjoyed your story a great deal and I'm hoping we won't have to wait so long for the next story!

The old tree that must come down is an excellent metaphor for the condition of the marriage of Chris and Charles. Charles has already topped it off,hoping to revive it as one does when you prune your roses.But now the absense of sap means that there can be no more growth and life.The tree has become a danger to all the surrounding properties.All attempts to save a dead tree are a fool's errand.It must be brought down in a conrolled way that minimizes collateral damage.The same is true of their marriage.The damage caused by adultery,disrespect,and selfishness kills the marriage just as the lightning strike kills the mightiest oak.Even though the trees root system remained intact,it could not stop the damage caused by the lightning.In the same sense,once the nourishment system was burned out death was inevitable.Marriages need the nourishment of love and if deprived of that nourishment;they also die!Excellent job!Ritter # 55

There's gotten to be so few of the good story writers left posting anymore. Again THANKS for your effort!!!

The kitty litter in the gutter to prevent coolant and oil getting into the storm drains was a nice touch - but would be plenty to show that destruction of the vehicles was intentional - a felony, too

Just about every other reference to the workings of the legal system were low grade fantasy - no appeal? interesting, but doesn't happen. The judge - his prejudice would have been the basis for an appeal just by itself. And trial - the author's characters don't need no stinking trial. And so it goes

Like eveyone else said - great metaphore, great language, great characters and plot build up! Hey, this one was easy! Wish all feedbacks could go like this one!

I feel compelled to respond to the previous commentator. I am not debating the accuracy of the legal procedures which according to you were not followed in the story. My counter point for your consideration is simple - this is not a documentary. Obviously, most of the details in fiction are not factually true or accurate. In fact, your verdict- that it's a fantasy (of sorts, it's not a fairy tale, but it does involve activating our imagination...) is accurate. <P> Obviously, for you, the fact that legal procedures were not represented according to the legal system you are familiar with was a distraction. <P>

I approach it differently. I ask myself - were the legal procedures (or any aspect in a story) within the fictitious universe of the story - a small town, where everyone knows every one else, and personal connections dictate behaviors as much as the formal letter of the law - were the procedures in THIS context of the story believable? To me they felt credible. <P>

By the way, a zero?

This is a very well told story - well written and a great plot. I don't know why most of the LW stories are cuckold now so it is really refreshing to have some real character development and a fun but credible plot.

Keep putting new stories up on the board! This was another good effort! You write entertaining tales!

I can't really 'think' of anything to add to all comments because they have been said more or less in the way I would of said them. GRRREEAATTT Story.! Thanks. JAG/TSO

You are on a roll of great stories that feel as real as someone's diary. I am glad that you focus on the feelings and life of the injured party not the cheater's excuses. People like Chris will never understand why they throw away the best things/people in their life. Another great one for the internet archives. Thanks!

A well written story!! The story telling was as if the author was telling it to you himself in person. Lots and lots of characters going in and out of the tale, and kept the whole thing interesting.Thanks for the great post....Rich

A good tale all the way around. Thanks for it.

Whoever you are, you're an insult to the Breaker's name.<BR>

This is a great story, one of the best!<BR>

Even Breaker knew about summary justice: <I>We caught them and we shot them under "Rule Three-Oh-Three!"</I><BR>

You don't believe there are small communities which operate just like the one in this story? You really do need to get your head out of that dark spot you shoved it!<BR>

Not that long ago there was a famous saying in Wollongong, <I>"Speed through our city and see our Towns"</I>, about a very biased magistrate who, to my knowledge, was never called to account.

I enjoy your writing. Any time I see your name as an author, a crooked smile appears on my face. The journey you are going to take your reader on does not disappoint. Good job again, author. Quality in writing, as usual. Thank you. Don

What a fun story this was. I can almost see this happening in a small mountain logging town with a tight sense of community, so you did well bringing that to fore. Otherwise, the humor was top notch! That tree falling on those trucks...oh, man! ..."through me or through the window"! Oh, Lord, I hope I remember all of this.

OK, noway is anyone gonna beat this one.

This is the second time I've read this story but I didn't comment the first time. This is one of the better stories on this sight. I have lived and written stories about a small community much like this one and find your depiction very true to life. Good story, good character development, and good flow. Thanks for you hard work and keep them coming.

You are a MASTER storyteller. This is superbly written and if you haven't tried to get published... whatinhell are you waiting for?!?!

the friend lost it all, and she did too. for both, their lives changed, and charlie, for the better

At no time was the husband blamed for his wife's infidelity, nor was he ever insecure enough to reconcile. In fact he was able to hang on to his balls for the entire story, I am so glad to see that C2C has gotten past her chronic male bashing stories.

Thanks for all the comments on this one. By the way, I, C2C, am male... born that way, and still that way. Sorry to disappoint anybody who thought otherwise.

it's only fair that I give HIGH PRAISE when he does a story the way I like them. Very nice. Please continue to write in this vein.

I think this is one of your best. Each time I read it, it just gets better. Thanks for all you do, and have done for this site.

BRILLIANT

I, too, have read this story several times. It is absolutely wonderful. No hard sex, no "filth." Loads of humor. Few, very few, stories (if any) of this caliber in "loving wives."

Well built story including an education about tree-felling which gave a greater depth to the story. I have not read you before but I will in future. Pity about the two pickups (ha!) - but certainly a more humane treatment than the equivalent(which I think of as Christopher Brookmyre's " ... the good ship Black-and-Decker").

Thank you for sharing. It read like country to me. Enjoyed it immensely.

There is NOTHING of loving wives and NOTHING of eroticism inside this story. It may be a fine story, but it doesn't belong here!

F.U.

Right down to the kitty litter.

I enjoyed this story very much, a fine read. R.T.

I don't care about a tree story so I stopped reading and rated it 1*.

reguardless of the comment for public moron number one, dworslock...sorry dwornock, it was a very nice story.

One of the funniest stories on this site. I laughed from beginning to end with how he got even.

Dwornock, maybe you should find the divorcee from this story, marry her and save her from the trees and move somewhere they don't grow. I'm sure she hates trees now, too. Just don't have any kids please.

5***** and another chuckle.

I greatly enjoyed this one. It had a good plot, some very interesting characters, and was well done gramatically. Very enjoyable, and one of my favorites, so far.

I had quite a few laughs during this one. Keep it up.

This was an excellent tale and had some very funny moments. But seriously, why do people cheat knowing it could possibly cost them everything? Chris had it made and she blew it for a stupid meaningless affair. Even flaunting it in her husbands face. I don't understand and I never will.

get a man with a chainsaw mad at you!. Good use of dry humour, excellent writing, well-developed story.

Having dropped a stump or two, ......

Chuckle ;-D

Reading C2C's story is in a vein like marveling at a serious-good tree-feller...it is a work of art ... a beautiful ballet! Even the muffled chainsaw matched the power but understatement of the tale! Superb!

Very creative revenge. A satisfying tale. Thanks.

The story is a great premise but needs more development.

and that's what stories should be about.

Good story

Third or fourth time reading this story, never fails to make me smile.

Mostly because he was an old logger, the same as I am. Over my logging career, I set chokers, pulled riggin', chased, tended hook, ran shovel, cat and 16,000 thousand of hours on skidders. The only two things I never did was yarder engineer or faller. But I have a good timber faller story.

My first day on the job under a 110' tube (tower) I was 19 and wet behind the ears. We were getting ready to tube up on a new landing. The whole crew was out pulling mainline extensions as we were going to be shotgunning out about 4,000' across two canyons. It was just me running a D6 cleaning up around the landing and the yarder engineer. And one tree dead center in the way. About 6' across the stump and 250' tall bastard growth red fir.

Remember how I mentioned I never fell trees? That was for a good reason. And then the yarder operator told me to grab a saw and tip that tree over. Told him I never fell any trees, he said no big deal, just fall it. Just get it on the ground. So I did. A nice big undercut and I am falling it directly away from the yarder where the tube is laying horizontal on the gantry. Yep, you guessed it, a single big tree and a little bit of wind and that SOB set back on me and no amount of pounding wedges could save me. Down that tree came, landing dead center in the middle of the tube and bent it plumb in half. A million dollar yarder down for the count!

Man was I in trouble. The whole side shut down for months, the timber laying on the ground drying out and worth less every day. The crew was pissed at me but darned if I didn't lose my job and was transferred to another side. Yep, the owner was my father in law!

Laid a few on the ground in my time. C2C either got some terrific help on the falling part or is or been around logging and falling.

Now if I was some kind of snooping ole law man, I think I could build a pretty good case against this tree landing were it did. Folk in story figgered it out. It is the two recently purchased buckets of kitty litter and where it wound up. That shore sounds like sumbuddy put some thinking into this here tree falling accident.

Just saying

I'm not a lumberjack, but my uncle was, and he had some tales to tell about felling trees up north. This one brought back a lot of memories, and the sense of humor was outstanding! Great job!

5 HUGE Stars!

Thanks again for a feel good read. Damn we miss stories like this!!!

This is worth the read. Really enjoyed what some would think is "just a good old boy." However, when crossed he knows how to Get 'R Done.

One Hell a story, one of the best I have read here on literotica!

Just really enjoyed it.

Smart and just a fun read!

I liked it.......bill

A plot, a couple of demure climaxes, lots of anti-climaxes and mini-climaxes nothing that pops real loud. But a very good story.....bill

Good plot pacing, no belabored ranting and raving. A suitable amount of wifely regret. It's all a real nice piece of work.

Read this story once before but apparently never left a comment. Enjoyable, entertaining and just plain fun. Really liked your characters - all except the 2 cheaters. I would have liked to read more about them. They were some good people. Thank you for the story.

"She never dreamed that Charlie would find out" - They ALWAYS say that, like it makes it better or worse if he finds out or not! If she's worried about him finding out, that's a good sign she shouldn't be doing it!

"and then just dumped her like it was all her fault" - It is really all her fault! SHE'S the one who vowed to be faithful. The other guy couldn't have cheated with her if she wouldn't cheat!

just folksy enough without going overboard.

Sometimes cheaters have no idea what they can lose. The stupid cunt found out, the hard way, what she lost. Everything. Fucking skank whore.

At first I had trouble fitting a logger's skill set into Loving Wives, but you did a masterful job of it. You crafted this as well as Charlie crafted the coffee table, and brought more pleasure to more people with your story.

Excellent pace, great main and supporting characters, a wonderful plot with several quick twists and turns, and just enough teasing mystery to keep us glued to out screens.

I'm an old man who used to work in the woods "way back when" and my second job was as a choker setter. I learned quickly who of the fallers to trust and who to avoid. That knowledge saved my bacon more than once. None of the loggers I worked with would bother with contests. They competed every day and the prize was getting the most wood onto the trucks and down the road.

I'm reading a lot of your work and you've impressed me. Thanks for writing this and keep on writing!

Beautifully put together, nice tight succinct writing, a great premise and a satisfying outcome.

thanks for the pleasure.

I don't know how many times I have read this, just as good this time as last or the next

a right nice story about a great feller.

While it's cool that she accepts it as an honorific, it's still more of a third-person kind of thing than second-person!

At least once every few months, it looks like. Lol

A very fun story about a not so fun subject.

Thank you, curious2c, for a great story.

I come back and read this one every once in a while, and it's always worth it.

Had to give it a five for all the action, drama and humor.

You have to say he cut her out of the marriage! Yeah I know that this FICTION! Burn the bitch Fuuuuuck mee man! He felled a massive tree on top of hers and her cock buddy's cars! Then cut through the door with a massive chain saw? Question! Didn't the cheaters hear the tree crush the vehicles? Maybe they were caught up in the fuck FANTASTIC STORY! Love you all! GREG. OH 100 % OF READING ENJOYMENT BYE.

Thanks for info

Took your advice and FRIENDED PROFILE

PERKS OF BEING FRIEND INCLUDE PHOTOS AND LITEROTICA QUALITY ACCOUNTS

LOOKED HER UP ON FACEBOOK ALSO

AT SOME POINT WILL REQUEST FRIEND WITH HER PROFILE

But if you did, you're talking about multiple tons worth of tree for an eighty foot section...

Even if you were somehow deaf to something like that hitting the ground you'd have definitely FELT it hit as the ground shook.

Even fucking up a storm, they'd have likely felt the whole house shake...

Not to mention (though I will) how'd you cut up a ten foot diameter tree using bars of under four foot...? I mean not impossible but definitely time consuming...

But liked the story anyway...

I really enjoyed your droll humor in this one, you kept me chuckling for quite a while. ;-) Having so many of the players related to each other was a hoot, too.

Thanks!

The voice and the rhythms of the story are perfect. Well done.

When I was a boy I worked a couple of seasons with an experienced logger felling trees and cutting them up for firewood for local folks. Ninety-nine times out of a hundred he could drop a tree on a dime and give you nine cents in change. But I was with him one day when he dropped a twisted old tree in a heavy wind. It started falling just like he planned. Then suddenly it spun 180° and dropped on top of him. His 13 year-old son raced to him, picked the tree off of his father and tossed it to the side. His father was covered in cuts and bruises and had the wind knocked out of him and he was obviously shaken up. But he elected to go home instead of to the hospital. Meanwhile, two grown men went over to the tree and together tried unsuccessfully to do what we all witnessed the boy having done. We still to this day can't believe what he did to the 'widowmaker'.

How did the guys homeowners insurance not have to pay for the car damage?

And it's still just as good. @Anonymous... it's just story mate, fiction, anything and everything is possible while the suspnsion of disbelief holds... And it does.

As usual, I missed the details of the cheat. Details are imperative in a cheating story. Just gave it 2 stars because.

but when there is a way the will, will provide, TK U MLJ LV NV

I quit keeping track of how many times I read this. Every reading gives me another tidbit to ponder.

It's a wonderful read and I envy your skill as a wordsmith.

J

i liked it. was a departure for the usual story on here. 5 stars

First, his homeowners insurance would be liable to pay for the damaged trucks and not the auto insurers. So they would be paid in full, and if he didn't have enough homeowners insurance then he would be paying for it, even if it was an accident. If he had any deductibles or limits he would be responsible for that. Second, because the homeowners insurance would be paying for both trucks, that's over $80,000 I'm assuming since one of them owed $32,000 on it still and the two were identical, they will very likely come after him because it's obvious he did it on purpose. Insurance pays for accidents and not for purposeful damage. His getting the cat litter under the trucks, he being a recognized professional, his motive of the two cheaters caught on camera in the house and those being their trucks, etc, makes it a fairly slam dunk case to win in court. Unless of course, the same crooked judge oversees that case, but have a feeling the judge wouldn't want to screw around with an insurance company attorneys.

On developers developing his 700 acres that Josh sold him. Yes, they have every right to keep the land private and unbuilt; however, that makes them extremely selfish and not the guys with the white hats. Let's remember the reason developers are able to build more houses that will sell is because we have growing populations. People need a place to live. That 700 acres that he is enjoying on his lonesome and before that Josh was enjoying every now and again as a vacation cabin could easily house 6,000 people (1500 homes at 4 people per home on average). And those people would be living in close proximity to the National Forest. Imagine all the children that will grow up to love living there. Again, in a free market system they have every right to keep the property for their personal enjoyment, just like a developer has every right to build on it if they have the opportunity and sell it at a profit, and potential buyers have every right to CHOOSE to buy that house over another at a fair market value. So not sure why the developers in that chain are seen as the bad guys in this story.

Last, the score on this story. It was an OK story. Nothing insightful or particularly that interesting. The characters don't really jump out at you, and they are not really fleshed out. They will be forgotten in 5 minutes. The reason, I believe, it got a very high score is because of the revenge aspect and many LW story readers on this site love that shit.

Like it more each time I read it. Can't beat small town America for good times. Perfect revenge, with severe consequences and only minor injuries to cheating pair. Johnadp, would like to see you author a story. Your many comments are certainly epic length, and fairly lucid at times. You would do well as a contributor.

The tree was ORDERED TO BE CUT DOWN because of multiple lightning strikes that KILLED the tree. The city is responsible for any damage NOT the home owner. As for the kitty litter, that was put under the trucks BEFORE the news crews arrived so no proof. ALSO proving that he did it on purpose would be almost impossible. As any prosecutor can tell you, KNOWING who did what is one thing but PROVING IN COURT who did what is another thing entirely.

And the comments were even funnier. But proving he dropped the tree on the trucks would have been a slam dunk. Proving he cut the bedroom door with his saw would have been a slam dunk. So he's committed several crimes. The attempted murder with the chainsaw being the most serious. Not even a friendly, hometown Judge can avoid the facts. One man has a broken ankle. Kinda hard to ignore the cause and the intent. He'd be lucky to get out of jail in 15 to 20 years. And she'd probably be awarded 80 to 90% of the marital assets in the divorce. Who would want to stay married to a psychopath that tried to kill you with a chainsaw? At least that's the way her lawyer portrayed her husband in Court. Good story, bad ending.

More drivel from this writer. After everything done in a half a page, the non-story goes on for two more inconsequential pages, mostly by writer trying to make his hero look tough and smart.

The guy pulls a chainsaw on his rival and walks without a charge? Dream on.

moved out of the city back to where I came from. houses crowed together . can't spit without hitting 1 . so yeah if I could afford it would have a home in the middle of 500 or a 1000 acres

"It's okay Jed. I forgive you man. You're my friend and I know. I understand why. It's a huge mess now though, ain't it?

Truthfully though I'm a little relived you never told me," I said. "Now I dont feel so guilty for not telling you about Betty's cheating"

I felt bad at the emotions playing across my friends face, but then again he protected my wifes affair at the expense of our friendship, so I didnt feel THAT badly about it.

He never really belived me, but he could never really ignore it either, not after Betty angrily confronted me one day asking how I could ever accuse her of being so dishonest and I calmly pointed out how she had plotted and schemed for months to hide my wifes affair. Jed and Betty's relationship was never the same, after that, they are still married, but not happily, Betty knows she is innocent and also knows that there is nothing she can do to fully assure her husband