by romancer
I love Charles Dickens and therefore read this story as soon as I found you.
And thanks to the anonymous commentator who found the names that connect you and Dickens.
And .... in some things I felt personally addressed, remembered some things from my long and long ended marriage.
Greetings from Germany.
An unexpected ending, should have known by the title, good story well described characters and great sex
Good story, with enough references to Charles, did like the well developed pace, unlike most stories not just a wham-bam, could do with a follow-up.
Well written and a good story. I liked it and gave it a 5. What a shame Mary will not be across the street for years to cum, I mean come.
Mar(le)y/Mary, E(ben)eezer/Ben, first sentence mimics Dickens' "A Christmas Carol", visitations in the night, ghosts of past, etc., many other bits are right out of the Carol, right down to the closing.
Could you draw out the Dickens connection for me? Maybe if he'd been a dick to his wife and there were ghosts of past, present and future showing him reasons to transform into a better lover/husband..... A Christmas Carol that focused on sexual instead of financial largesse. But as presented its a pretty generic (i.e. non-Dickensian) plot ordered around a mysterious sexual antagonist.
I also hope your character lives happily ever after.
For those of us with many winters behind us...this was wonderful. We all.have made choices in marriage. Not all what we wanted. To.look at those choices now and be at peace with them. Thank you.