All Comments on 'Shit Happens'

So Dean, after finding out that Alison lied to him about Katie's age and likely her own age, still stayed with Alison? He was THAT stupid? And after having to pay out millions of dollars due to their illicit affairs, the company did not fire their asses? Sorry, but the story just gets more lame.

A smooth five star story.

PS Anonymous: Bethany is Dean's wife.

I don't get the sudden change in personality. I always hate that when it isn't explained. Jesus why stick around if you're immediately going to tell your daughter you hope her father/your husband dies while he's in the hospital.

And honestly, no way they get married and the dude doesn't find out her age.

Fun read but lots of disconnects

It really sucks but Dave had refused to see (like most) the character flaws in that pig he was married to, believe me they were there.

No one turns that cruel and mean spirited in a year or so, unless of mental illness of course.

But wishing a person would just die, and on top of that saying it to her own daughter! But no because her aunt has the same character flaws, I could never say to a stranger let alone a niece or nephew of mine "what are you doing calling this late" when it was apparent that person was clearly upset

Great story!

5

Who the heck was Bethany.

Thanks Matt. I like when you write these snap-shot stories. You tell a great tale in these very few pages. Not that it matters but 5&FAV

Good idea. Bad plot and poor development of the story. Shallow characters.

Great story and well-written. Fun reading about Alison getting just desserts.

Ed

Weak dialogue, nothing new

Such proper language. Could have been better with real emotional language

Simply not believable. From wedded bliss to a raving whore over night. Nope ! Like others have said, too large holes to bridge. 2-for effort. No-😊’s

Massive slut ray. Not even from Mars. Maybe Neptune.

The daughter should have had her mother arrested for assault!

ZK

Kind of scattered, It reads as though you were in a rush to write something.

5/5. Brilliant as always, mate.

He had a long and loving marriage replete with with wild sex. And then she just Hope's he dies?

FYI. Taking the aspirin could have made a hemorrhagic stroke more severe Other than that, the story was entertaining.

I’m not sure but the story is incomplete

Lots of what’s if or there’s just incomplete info

Sprry but story had on flow it just stated hatred and disheartening for really no reason

Try again

Not a good story at all. Very average at best, quite silly at worst.

3/5

Meh. Too many plot holes. The wife’s motivation behind the sudden 180 degree instant change from a June Cleaver to a utter sociopathic bitch is left utterly unaddressed. This and the many other instances of broken logic leave the reader trying to bridge these breaks themselves. This reader confusion leaves the author failing to get the reader to suspend their disbelief. This epic fail breaks what could have been an interesting tale.

3 stars because the author at least tried…

Enjoyable story. Hard to believe that anyone could be as cold and cruel as Alison. You made it very easy to dislike her.

Ed

I have read enough of your stories to know I won't be reading anymore or your stories,they stink. The daughter tells her dad her mom is cheating on him and shows photos of her mom/his wife getting fucked on the hood of a car and he phones wifes sister for her to tell his wife to get get home right away..???totally unbelievable. In real life it would have been to tell her not to dare show her face at his door or lose it. The locks would be changed and necessary arrangements made the next day for divorce. Something is wrong with your mind to consistently come with unrealistic stories like this. Maybe you just cater to those whom like to read about men that are wimpier than they are to feel good about themselves. simply cannot think of any reason for your stories.

5 Stars on this Story .. Keep up the Great work

"We have met the enemy, and he is us!" - Pogo

Terrible woman. Ending seemed somewhat incomplete.

Sorry, but there just aren't enough evil vile despicable words in the dictionary to describe Alison. And the moron with her? He gets what he deserves.

Still a very good story, but much too easy on Allison. I say no to the goatee and white hair, as that’s Col Sanders signature look. Aspirin is a good initial anticoagulant in cardiac arrest and stroke.

Not sure you've met any real women, or if you have, you cant translate it into the written form in a believable manner.

Alison's way too monstrous to be credible, she comes off like a cartoon. Every interaction with her, you wonder why it took so long for the family to figure out her nature. Katie's the hero here, carries the story. Could've smoothed out the ending, felt a little by-the-numbers.

I gave it 5***** because I am increasingly appreciative of smart daughters with character. What I can't understand is the 180 degree turnaround by the wife. If Dave had no sense of the cheating, it suggests she behaved like a good wife. What made the huge turnaround happen where she actually wished him dead? That's hard to believe unless she is a full-out sociopath?

The story was rolling along and then it just seemed to be over - suddenly. What happened in the divorce? The Company paid, but did Alison and Dean pay or did they get their share? And there was never really any explanation of why Alison turned into a bat-shit-crazy woman. But a happy ending saves the day. Cheers!

Characters need more "character." By the way, hair cannot turn white. Once hair has a color, that color is permanent. And what was the point of the wife's phone being left on the charger? That fact had no place in the rest of the story.

After the lawsuits, it’s shocking that Alison & Dean were allowed to keep their jobs. Also, I don’t understand how the employer ‘facilitated’ their affair. That part doesn’t make sense.i happen to live in North Carolina, and can’t imagine anyone here using the spoken sentence structure, during Katie and Newt’s conversations. Until MIT was mentioned, I thought the setting was within the UK. Finally, seeing evidence of his wife’s infidelity, his first action was to call her to come home? Why would he possibly want her there, until after putting all of her belongings in garbage bags by the curb, and consulting a divorce lawyer?

Other than those details, good story.

1. You should write stories about people in the UK. North Carolina residents do not speak like your characters.

2. I would really like to know why a woman would go “off the rails” so quickly.

3. The thing with Molly happened to suddenly and quickly. If fact, the whole story happens to quickly. You need to slow down and flesh out the story and characters more fully.

4. I’m not sure aspirin is the best thing for a stroke - heart attack maybe, stroke no.

5. I’m sure the BTB crowd all gave you 5 stars, but I did not rate it that highly. Though the idea was pretty good (the kids in the VIP area), it was not well written.

Very enjoyable. 😂 Finally another individual who gets cheating is unacceptable. Maybe I’ll read more of your stories to see if my original assessment proves correct.

Great story. North Carolina is definitely rough on Alienation of Affection lawsuits. Just ask Philadelphia Eagles asshole Fletcher Cox.

Are you confusing a stroke with brain injury?

And here's some research on aspirin and stroke treatment https://www.webmd.com/stroke/news/20000601/aspirin-after-stroke-helps-prevent-another#1

You use the 'cheated on hubby has a stroke' thing too much, it gets boring reading the same thing in multiple stories all the damn time!

BUT I would like to know why a supposed loving wife turned into such a spiteful nasty bitch.

You set it up so that revenge comes about by the cheated on being a constant victim.

The antagonists do seem to get what they deserve, but not, it seems, at the behest of the faithful husband.

Not really my style, but still written fairly well, so I'll persist in going through your stories. I do love a good read; and part of writing is the joy of creating a world in your head, so you still have your reward for writing.

All the best.

I have to love the daughter. She should have bitch slapepd the mother back or crunched her nose though.

... taking asprin is good for heart attacks (“thins” the blood). BAD, VERY bad for strokes, which is caused by bleeding into the brain. If the bleeding can’t stop...

On top of which this is really much a shite story. An apparently loving mother, and apparently loving wife of 20 years just flips into a lying vicious nymphomaniac in something like 6months. No explanations of this.

Ugh. 2-stars

I really liked this story. Somebody had some backbone. Thank goodness for the daughter or this could have gone on for a while.

My only issue was the wife's (BTB) punishment was not painful enough! She practically got off Scott free and kept her job.

Well told ....😆

Allison definitely belongs in the company of LW's most heartless cheating wives. How would their company pay a huge settlement and not fire Dean and Allison? Good on the daughter for outing the cheating whore. No grandmother role for Allison, like that will really bother her. As she ages, Dean will tire of her, if they don't cheat on each other before that.

OK, dude, you want to write an ugly end to my story? Knock yourself out!

Your really really fucked up ending. Somebody please show the jackass how the ending should have gone. Or I will and it will not be pretty.

Sorry wimpish husband, no surprise the wife bailed out. Not my cup of tea.

You forgot Dave's against Dean and Bethany's against Alison.

Same plot with same characters. This guy needs to stop writing or get someone to write new story plots for him.

Too many holes in the story, especially the end! If the company that Allison and her lover worked was sued, as your story indicates, the 2 would have been history!

Any problems I may have with your stories, it is NEVER about how they are written. The description of Dave's stroke paralled that of a close family friend, also named Dave. Allison and Dean got off too easily. Other than that, it was a story of epic reading value. I will be back to re-read it.

Many you behave like this is a fact based true story. These stories are made up, it's from someone's imagination. He can say whatever he wanted to say if he wanted to Sue the company for alienation of affection so what! He he could have made up some long lost forgotten old law which is still on the law books that's based on the bible that says adulters will have to be sterilized and beaten by the cheated on parties also the cheaters will be dunked in a freezing cold river while tied to a chair. I left out the chillie peppered coated baseball bat shoved up their butts'. Those may have been too crude for the people of Salem.

Now again Very slowly with small words these stories are made up from somebody's mind and are not real. They are not fact based (did not really happen) nor do the have to be fact based (not real) also many of the writers are not from the same countries. (They Have different learning experiences).

Anonymous give it a rest it's easy to try and Bully people when you hide your identity.

Stop drinking the LIterotica Loving Wives Cool Aid that so many writers spew out

! Unless corporate management actively forced Dean and Alison into sex, there is no cause of action!!

That costs Ten Stars!

Next tell us that the world is flat!

Idiot!!

This was just plain dumb.

Good story but not enough at the end! I would have loved to see the daughter bitch slap both of them! You could have made the end for Dean and the slut a little tougher and carried the ending a little longer!

a different kind of "stroke" story.

Good, good, good. Never has anyone said it better. Hang in there Matt. Those of us who can understand the written word applaud your efforts.

How old are you? This reads like something that a 14 year old, like Alison wishes Kate was, would write. Calm down. This jumps all over the place. I'm certain that you're a better writer than this. The premise of the story wasn't bad, but you jumped all over the place with it.

This is a great story, as most of MattblackUK's are. But, you have a bunch of "Anonymous" kibitzers who have never posted a story of their own and have the gall to act a critics on people who do know how to write. Minor mistakes like spelling (loose instead of lose) is my "ouch." But let those who criticize write a perfect story and put it out there for the nitpickers.

Didn't do anything for me at all. This was really a waste of your time writing & my reading it. The characters weren't that believable & the overall sense of the whole tale was wishy washy. 2 **

.....any dang wimps!! Dave certainly wasn't one. Bethany, btw, was Dean's "very pretty wife" so he was doing the same thing Alison, the total bitch, was doing!!! Come on guys, if you're gonna criticize a writer @ least read the story!! Good job Matt.

Matthew owes his readers an explanation, TK U MLJ LV NV

the problem is Try Not To Step In It, TK U MLJ LV NV

And no real direction.

Only a man could write crap like this.

story a bit on the wimpy side. why does the man always have to puke, get drunk stroke, cry, whimper , think od suicide, blah, blah.

4 stars

Not enough good new LW tales coming out so I re-read the great older ones. Fucking skank whore cheating wife and her asshole prick jerkoff married lover got what they deserved in the end. Nothing. Fuck 'em.

HA

the dickless wonders who spend all their waking hours here, immature nonsense to the rest of us, 1*

This story doesn't make any sense to me. The sudden change from what Allison was supposed to have been to someone so openly hateful doesn't make any sense at all, the "custody" issue makes no sense at all, the alienation of affection suit against Dean when it is clear it was Allison who initiated the affair makes little sense and generally the story is completely simplistic.

I gave it a generous 2.

Why do we (not North Americans) write revenge stories to North American places?

There are some law circumtansis, that there are not in Europe.

1. In some (6) USA's states the modern sciences arrived and the ex husband does not pay children support, if the child are below 4 years old and NO DNA test proof.

2. The modern sciences again. The ex or husband can start law suit against the biological father to pay 18 years children support money in settlement.

3. The ex wives get the children custody in 99.999% in Europe. However this is 98.999% in the USA, so the 1% different couses the lost children custody revenge stories are believable from the USA. (there are new law institute the common custody as well, etc...)

4. Big continent (USA and Canada) so the revenge stories could happen among so many people..............

makes for a good landing point, TK U MLJ LV NV

Who cares about the wifes motive, it is a short story and I enjoyed it.

What, did she have a brain tumor? I don't know what else would account for a sudden major change in personality like this. People don't go from 20 years of being a sweet, loving spouse to irrational, uncaring bitch overnight. This needed some explanations and dialog.

You are obviously a Brit of some sort. Why do you write stories set in America? Write what you kmow.

The lack of a reason or explanation for Alison turning from loving wife and mother onto an out and out psycho really hurts this story.

to have more info on Alison. Why? When? How long? Writing was decent... 3*

And rather weak plot. Writing fair. Two stars.

Sometimes people behave against the average behavioral model, like this womwn behaved in the story.

Such scen was in FrancisMacomber's story "The Six O'clock News Slot". where the caught cheating wife changed the crying technic to the psychic attact. Here the psychic attac was strengthen with physical against her daughter...............

I thought your story was really good.

who knows what the real reasons were and who cares. Actions speak for themselves and psycho fruitcakes do sooner or later expose themselves. One other being ones mother does NOT give them a free pass to be irrational, immoral, or criminal like this woman was when she struck her daughter. Get a grip people it was a realistic story including the stroke.

I appreciate a man being a man. He may or may not BTB, his choice, but he never kisses her ass or accepts her deception or disrespect. Better to be single than live with that. It's even better for the kids (as they learn from their parents.)

So thank you!

I find it very difficult to believe any wife and mother of 20 years can turn into a raving psychotic bitch in 8 hours or less, especially with her daughter! No, this may go good with the BTB crowd, but it was very poorly written. Simply taking the offensive is not motivation for her behavior under any circumstances. Also, you mention, the ever present in these kinds of stories, "alienation of affection" law suit because their firm encouraged their adultery...why? What reason would the company have to encouraging two of their employees to cheat on their spouses; especially if they are based in a state, as you say, that vigorously supports such law suits. Wouldn't that be pretty stupid? No, Matt; your writing skills are fine but you put no effort into plotting your stories. Sorry, but you know I'm right.

... that had the good guy win (nevermind Huedogg2; don't know what's up his butt).

Fun read, well written, and thank you.

I can believe all the major points in the story. I have seen were one person does flip like this and stress does cause gay hair.

Only two minor points one using the phase "daddy" makes think your about to switch to the Incest category. The second in the lack of passion or emotion in most of the story. It was like listening to a NOVA story.

So lets see

No one died, close but no tombstone

The innocent moved on with their lives

The guilty got what they deserved each other and knowing that the other is a lying cheat

Well done!

Thank you for not using that horrible phase "It's so distinguished" (grumb grumb, teeth nash) .

What a cruel, heartless cunt bitch. Great tale where revenge wasn't necessary. Life itself took care of the whore. If this was continued I'm sure the asshole lover would realize he was manipulated and would leave Alison. Then she could suck cock in back alleys.

HA

I loathe this author's take on the whole genre. He doesn't have the tongue in cheek humor of Britease nor the hilarious unintentional irony of JohnDoe. Tries to be far too clever and I almost quit reading at the second exclamation mark. Wish I had. 2*

Loved the daughter exposing Alison as a lying cunt over and over. Good job and thanks for sharing.

I have the science right on that

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/09/29/the_odd_body_shock_hair/

But obviously it can't change overnight. But that's not what happened to Dave's hair.

To this day, years later, her husband can't fathom why his wife just upped and left him for a younger man. And her change of attitude was just as sudden and as biz\rre as that of Alison.

Wooden and juvenile in its dialogue. Thanks for the effort.

loved it...and would I assume Bethany is Dean's wife...that was unclear to me?

But Bethany is mentioned (albeit somewhat offhandedly) as Dean's (ex)wife, right before Newt and Kate married.

Kind of a lame complaint...

But you sure like exclamation marks, don't you!!!???

Learn the difference between who's and whose!!!!!!!!!!

I didn't like it!!! Not even a little!!!!

Yeah, two paragraph before that mention. It's the paragraph that begins, "And as the local corporate officers..."

'Bethany is dating some, but nowhere near moved on enough to date seriously.'

Did I miss a character somewhere?

Cardboard cut outs. No motive or reason for wife's sudden switch from loving spouse to batshit crazy bitch.

I'm OK with BTB but most normal people would be saying WTF? Why? In this story, it's just OK one minute & bonkers the next. Generally, in fiction, writers try to give their characters some backstory that explains why they did what they did, even if the explanation is hard to believe.

Here, there's nothing. Routine wife to fruitcake. At least, you could have said that a tropical beetle burrowed it's way into her clit and the itching drove her to cheat? Sheesh!

Of course, some of the LW nut cases just assume that any female at any time for no reason at all can change into a sex-crazed, fang-dripping, husband-hating cunt. No reason required. Laughable.

I thought the character of the wife was a bit over the top, but I guess some hormonal women can be that nasty.

Nicely done.

Thanks for the read.

For the read.

How could she just lose it and go fora younger guy with no regards for the consequence.not believable at all. Her personality changed to a conniving whore.

A nasty personality from a loving wife. She leaves the home and doesn't return for her things,she slaps her daughter, to many thing here that make no sense .it just doesn't no add up. How come with her new boy toy she never cleaned out the bank accounts. She tells her daughter who is 18she wants custody. Well she is more disturbed than she realizes.the weakness of this story goes on and on. Yet there those who rate this highly. Also 2 million for adultery that a laugh.

it details opening and closures. TK U MLJ LV NV