All Comments on 'A Summer By The Lake'

Even though Im a city slicker Im loving the inclusion of some rich NC union history - not to mention I grew up going up to one of those small mountain towns every summer and I love getting reminded of the only grocery store within 30 miles being a modest Dollar General

BUT!!! if you are coming around a bend and see a woman taking a piss, you would be an IDIOT! to say hi a beautiful morning. Don't you agree!!! LOL MORON!!!!

Loved it

Just a well written story. 5 stars!

What a very good story.

Great story! You sure have a way of writing that just captures the heart of those reading so that they can't put your story down. I wonder how many people have read this story multiple times? By reading a number of the comments. it appears that a lot have. Keep up the good work and I can't wait to read more of your stories.

A tremendous read. Not sure how many times I have read it now but it is one that I keep coming back to. It really would make a great movie.

Wonderful story. Nicely done. This story deserves wider publication. Suggest you contact an agent.

This was a great story. The flow was perfect and kept my interest, I laughed, I cried, and I thoroughly enjoyed it.

Thank you for sharing,

great story. "Imminent domain" should be eminent domain. <refers to the power of the government to take private property and convert it into public use, referred to as a taking.>

I was with you all the way. I love this story, and I agree with the other laudatory comments especially the one about it being a Hallmark movie.

Too good. All your stories are actually too good.

eminent domain

I used more kleenex reading this story than any other story I have read in Literotica. And I have read this story three times. I loved it.

Loved it! With a little editing, (for obvious reasons) this could be made into a Hallmark movie, 5 stars +

Realistic and relatable. Nothing more needs to be said.

This is the most honest and professional sports commentary channel today.

Umpteenth time of reading and it is still one of the best on here. life can be good Gave it 5 stars a while age, just wish I could give 5 stars again

I loved the story, I thought the poison oak was going to have a mention a little after the opening. I was curious how bad she got it.

3rd or 4th read. Kicka$$ story!

I'd buy and read this if it was turned into a book. Watch the movie too if it became a film (in this story he wrote the book and it became a film, so why not in real life?)Yes there are some typos but small errors like that don't spoil the story. Such a good story. BardnotBard

Second read. Great job Five Big Ones

Well done and well written. Thank u for sharing....

A Classic! Thanks for this wonderful story! 5/5

Second third or fourth reading I'm losing count. One of my favorites next to Lady Killer and Needles and Delaney. Q is one good writer.

One of my first Q tales, probably my favorite! 5 stars

somewhere east of Omaha

Excellent!

What an awesome read!

Absolutely a wonderful and most enjoyable story. I have read it twice, once a few months ago. The second time was even better than the first. Thanks for writing it.

Boring to the max................

5 stars. Minor detail. For practical purposes ( except perhaps for truck farms) U.S. farmers aren’t rivals with each other, their rivals are in the Ukraine, Brazil, and Australia. They are rivals only in buying farm ground or renting it.

5 stars! You have a wee problem with spelling and keeping names straight, but it doesn't detract from the story. Wonderful!!!

Heart warming. 5 stars.

Bill S.

EXCELLENT 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟.

A moving and beautiful story, obviously written in a professional manner and with sincerity.

Beautiful ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Third time reading. Still gets five stars.

I enjoy your stories. A lot, an this one was no exception. At some point someone seemed to be cutting onions nearby. Thanks for sharing. I'll keep reading you

W O W ! Here it goes, My Thoughts . . . . . It was absolutely Great! Y E S, I Thoroughly enjoyed reading Your Creation ! BUT, while reading this, the symptoms of my "allergies" kicked in like Never Before. I am going to have to look into having the house thoroughly cleaned and fumigated to alleviate "those symptoms".

THANK YOU !

Eminent domain.

5 stars.

one of your better stories regardless of how many times I read it. BB is the real star, MC

He didn't get her to sign a prenup!? It's all fun and games until you come home and Sarah's fucking Greg or her ex-husband in his bed. Hasn't he ever read stories in the LW section of Literotica?

Wonderful story

This a wonderful story, no matter how many times you read it. Be able to be the humanitarian he was is something that makes you wonder about the times we live in. The down and out homeless, the families that are just getting by. It has been said by some in the know that the two wealthiest men in this country could solve the homeless problem and not miss the money. If that's the case why can't our elected officials solve it? Because the homeless don't vote, so the politicians don't give a shit. That's my soap box for the day, great story...............................

Nice story.

Wonderful!

This is a great story, perhaps my favourite on Literotica. My only issue is that ends, I want to keep reading about the Smiths. Not sure how many times I have read it now but it brings me such joy reading it. It should be a movie.

Rereading for the third time. Love the story.

A few minor typos and inconsistencies - in the wedding June and Greg's daughter was the ring bearer while, at the same time, Harry's youngest son was the ring bearer - I suspect that the intent was for June and Greg's daughter to be the flower girl.

Surnames did get confused - Sarah took back her maiden name (Parker) after the divorce but that still meant that BB's last name was Jones (that point was actually made at another point in the story). But during the custody hearing not only was BB referred to as Ms Parker but her father was also called Mr. Parker. Nothing major but something that careful proof reading should have picked up.

And skimming thru some of the older comments I see that I'm not the only one that picked up on the fact that the last section is a complete add on - while it could have been a story (or stories) in itself it didn't belong here.

My fourth time reading this story. It's wonderful. Thank you!

Rereading. My only criticism relates to the last section (the epilogue if you prefer). It's too much of an add-on - kind of like a fairy tale that ends with "they all lived happily ever after". That deserves an entire story of its own.

Excellent. Slow & predictable at first be very compelling to read . Very enjoyable. Thank you

I keep finding myself coming back to this spectacular story and it always makes me cry. Thank you for giving me something to read that is wonderful, funny, sad, silly and incredibly emotional.

Alexandra xoxo

Being a sucker for happy endings with a touch of romance, this one is five stars all the way. I particularly liked how Harry started out developing a relationship with BB that eventually developed into a relationship with Sarah. I thought Harry's lecture to Sarah about putting her daughter ahead of Sarah's anger at all men all the time was brilliant. This was my second read and just as enjoyable as the first.

Fourth time of reading, still one of the best on here

What a wonderful story. Thank you.

Loved reading this again just as much as the first time. Heartwarming romance. Thank you. BardnotBard

yup,another one i'd give extra stars if i could ,thanks.

Very nice story

6 stars

Excellent; would have been better if problems such as these had been avoided:

A summer by the lake:

Harvey Gant, and a few local flunkies were all indited. indicted

They ratted the guy who shot me out, ratted out (split verb

I was going call a tow truck when I got down to the village to pick your car up.

and try to get yours through imminent domain.

I hope you have a good life, and it brings you what you need regardless of what you want.

enjoyed the volleyball and batmitton competitions. badminton

Another read of this great love story.

It’s at least my third time around reading this, every time I’ve read it something else pops out and makes take notice, this time it was the line “Emotions ran across her face like water over stones”, that is such a wonderful descriptive writing, it conveys exactly what the author intended, that’s inspired wordplay right there. The other thing that struck me was how whittled down this story was, it might not seem it, with 8 pages of reading behind us, but there’s no excess anywhere, no fatuous nonsense, or surplus side plots, just the story arc and events surrounding the three MCs, that’s on-point editing right there, all told this an embarrassment of riches and a damn good story to boot. So, thanks QHML, for writing and posting it here on for us to read for free, cheers, Ppfzz.

i love these stories world needs as many as you can create

A classic. I'll be back to re-read one of these days. The world needs feel good stuff as an anodyne to the fractures in society. Remind us of the virtues of tolerance, kindness and compassion. Too much manufactured hate going around.

LMJ

A lovely feel-good story

Really, really impressive and touching! Chapeau!

Great story!

What a disappointing albeit patently feel good story! Folks, i had come with so much of "expectations". The great QHML1 aka "L Holden Buff" was authoring it after all.

Ah but life goes on.

Great stry, loved it!

Definitely a read again, and again, and again... thank you!

A lovely read. Very enjoyable.

Another excellent example of your story telling. Thanks for sharing it. 5*.

Despite the many little flaws, this story is so good, I keep coming back to read it again and again. Thank you for sharing with us. 5*

I have read several hundred stories on this site over several years, including this one several times. my favorite story on this site.

Please tell me you have a book I can buy? Awesome story and very well written

This is the second time I read this story. Loved it both times and cried almost all the way through the second half of the chapters. Words can't describe how excellent this story is. All I can say is You Nailed It...

No matter how many times I read this story I love it and most of your other stuff too

One of if not the best I have read on this site

One of the best on here, irrespective of what Mr/Mrs/M Anonymous posts

Rereading for the fifth time. Still as good as every time before...5 stars easily!

This story is still good reading the second time around.

I agree that MC was a bit too perfect. His scars didn’t seem to affect him too much. It was a technically sound piece.

The plot line was pretty vapid and low stakes when you have unlimited funds and patience. Plus, unlike your other works, the infertility issue is skimmed through. That is a very hard conversation to have with even the most loving and caring people. It’s ended marriages

He is too perfect of a character. Always says and does the right thing. Succes was easy for him. Makes him uninteresting.

These lines are perfect example

Seems they were Catholic, but never attended. I couldn't understand why people would kill each other in the name of religion, the concept of my God is Better than your God, and I'll kill you if you disagree, was just so outlandish I would never understand it.

Seems they were catholic and then goes into some weird diatribe against religion? He is a philosopher too?

Part of engaging with a character is seeing and embracing their faults and challenges.

I know I read this before because it was already rated a 5* when I finished and you can't change the rating. I don't know if I commented before, but I'm not going to look through 544 comments to find out. I'll just say that this author has a knack for satisfying his readers' lust for happy endings. He (I assume, he) pulls all the cornball aspects of a story together and plasters them onto the last page. The stories don't have a happy ending; they have multiple happy endings. It would be nice if the world really works that way. I think I will postpone reading any more of this saccharine goo. At least for a while. We're all suckers for a tear jerker.

After the fourth time of reading "Excellent"

Just as good on my 2nd. reading.

OK first...what was the secret between the judge and BB??? Why make Sarah so much older and baren?

great romance story....loved BB's role in it all..I laughed and I teared up till it was hard to read...great job...some typos and misspellings but not enough to slow things down.

5 stars easily. What else can I say that hasn't already been said by 500+ other comments.

This was an incredibly fun love story. Everything was entertaining and paced beautifully. Thank you for all you put into creating and posting this wonderful gem.

lots of cliches...

I have not read but 2 of the comments here; and I cannot believe that anyone could make anything but excellent and positive comments about this story!!

You did tell us at the start, sex was minimal; which is JUST FINE WITH ME!! This is a love story, it took them both some time, and B.B. fixed them up sssooo well, ending up as a Happy Family, with LOTS of grandparents who love her to boot!!!!

This is sssooo a Five**5**Star story...deserves even more by my way of thinking!! The emotional development is the best, and I am going to explore another story, see if I can find one just as satisfying, if not more so!!

Very beautiful story, I loved it.

Must have missed this story when you posted it. Another winner!

5

Sniff, sniff, harump…. Allergy season is early this year. Yeah, you’re giving the Hallmark Channel a run for their money. You’re effort certainly rates a five plus.

Very well done. Anybody wanting to learn to write can come and look at this as a "how to."

I loved it. I stumbled into it and read it all the way thru. A really touching, moving story. I could almost see Hallmark or Lifetime doing a movie of this story. You've really out done yourself Q I think this is one of the best I've read in a while. Yup, there were a couple of nits, but not enough to really mention. They sure didn't stop me from reading the story. I started by speed reading the first page, only to go back to the beginning and start all over at a slower normal pace, as I didn't want to miss any of the details you like to hide in your stories. I gave it 5 big stars, but wish I could have given it more, as it deserves it. Thank You for sharing it with us.

Great story - rereading (for the second time).

A couple of minor nits - during the custody hearing (pg 5) when BB is called to the stand the lawyer uses the name BB Parker - at that point her name was legally Jones. And when the lawyer says that he has no more questions for her father he refers to him as Mr Parker.

And on page 1, when Harry comes home and first meets BB he remarks about her green eyes but when they go into the pizza place and the waitress says that BB has Harry's eyes he says that he never noticed.

I keep coming back to this story. Very entertaining and well done!

wonderfully warm and loving story. Very well done!

I laugh at the”similar stories“ section above. There aren’t any stories similar to this one. They all fall way short of this.

Bill S.

my 2nd or 3td reading as this story is always good. thanks.

You write the best stories on this site. THANK YOU SO MUCH. This is the second reading of this one as I am reading some of your stories again and also for the first time. Only ever found one that I was not sure about, will have to reread it. By the way you do know how to make a 75 year old cry. I have always been emotional so I should really stop reading your stories, not a chance on that, Thank you again for your talented writing. Mel B known as Hornydevil47