by saddletramp1956
4/5
Good Old Saddle Tramp story.
Thank heavens , no supernatural here.
Keep writing.
Cheers !
Thanks ST I was about to email you to see if you were ok. Good to see you back in the saddle. So are the stories you are busy with going on Amazon? I have read the first three and I know there is a 4th. Damn good stories. Thanks for being you and thanks for the stories. KUDOS
I’ve read this story too many times before (rich asshole lawyer, idiot wife, military Superman, gated compound, elaborate plan for no real reason but to show dominance). Standard formula, quite predictable. This type seems to always be popular, so by all means keep writing them, as you do it best. But, that’s enough for me.
Wow! I finish the story and find 17 comments in front of me and the yarn is only 4 hours old! Congrats, My Man, another ST winner. Well fantasied and well told. Not too bloody or gory this time just short and sweet and too the point. Love it!
Looking forward to meeting this Marine couple again. Oorah!
Cheers
SAGE
Oh how the BTB crowd has missed the master. Glad to see you back and haven’t lost your touch. Hopefully we will get to see more of your work soon. Welcome back
The SaddleTramp version of the classic "wife sets husband up at rich 'alpha' boss's weekend retreat" trope. As always, good job.
MonsieurX just about said everything for me. A story told a hundred times before, just the names changed. As usual it was well written and described but lacked any originality whatsoever.
Really fun read, as always! I was seriously disappointed that his dream didn't have any "repercussions" this time. I was hoping Darren would pull something at the end with the usual ST results. 5*
Similar to your other good works. Men with backbone and character not tolerating skank slut wives. Keep it up.
Super story ST. Wished you would have questioned her and the others saying how much she loved him. No way Jose. Thanks SK742. 5*
Usually stories in this plot line take 5 to 9 pages. As usual you applied shock & awe in an entertaining way.
It’s a happy day when my hero saddletramp1956 posts a story! Thanks for the fun read.
Always an enjoyable read, ST. Even if the plot is not truly original, your characters are the same ones we've always known. I feel that having us get to know them is the primary purpose of your storytelling.
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Biggest problem I had with the whole "But MY protagonist is gonna give'em hell!" approach was the Eve character. She didn't even attempt to sell the shit-package the Darren character was delivering! It's as though ALL of the conspirators were trying to create resistance from the husbands with the specific intention of destroying them. While this might be the epitome of evil, it's very, very far from reality: my opinion is that the greatest evil is usually perpetrated by normal people who cooperate with lies they have an incentive to believe. I think that's why "The Bridge" by RG was such an awesome story; it didn't rely on cookie-cutter villains and wives that wished actual harm on their husbands like this one does.
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Thanks for the read. Good to see you.
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And I'm glad the earlier commenter answered the question of "Who died?" That was a nice tie-in.
I would say the worth of this outlandish story comes to a climax when Janice, the unfaithful wife, is visited in jail by her husband Tom. After all that she has conspired to do to him she utters the most ridiculous phrase, "so there is no way back?". Your reputation of story telling here is immense, but this little tale is ridiculous. Yes I understand you reserve the right to publish whatever you desire, but from my point of view this story is undeserving of any positive marks. Others like fantasy tales and to them I say enjoy.
An ok story but not up to you usual standards, I do understand about being busy, been there and done that.
I miss the (almost) weekly stories you used to put out. Kinda wish this one was fleshed out a bit more, but was what I’ve come to expect.
HAHA I've missed your stories. Loved how after he learned of the plan he was like screw it and called in the troops.
Only thing missing was Tom kicking that guys ass. Felt necessary after the whole alpha male talk.
I CAN'T WAIT for the follow-up to this 5-star intro to a new set of Saddletramp characters !
It's always a pleasant surprise to find a new story from this marvelous author.
Thanks for another great Saddletramp adventure... Can't wait for more summertime stories. 5 Big Stars
Good, solid story in a category where 85% of what is published would be better suited for helping rose bushes grow better. From a technical point of view, this one seemed a bit of a rush to the ending. However, I also didn’t see much that would have been helped by extending it.
Very nicely written! I have only one thing that bothers me.
The way you crammed Marsha into the epilogue made it feel like an obligatory adendum. Like your MC meeting a new woman was just a box that needed to be ticket so the story would fit all the necessary cliches.
4/5
Saddletramp always brings a smile when I see a posting. You do not disappoint sir
A familiar ST56 storyline, which of course means I enjoyed it. I look forward to the next rendition.
Would have loved to hear about discipline for the wife and her lover meted out to them by fellow prisoners.
A private moment between Tom and her boss where he shows the boss the error of his ways would be lovely.
As usual, Saddletramp takes a standard trope and turns it into something believably unbelievable. And our MC always gets his man! Well done.
CWG
Good story.
I felt sorry really for Janice
for being a very stupid female.
Just refreshing to read a non-cuck story.
Even if it's quite over-the-top kind of story
Thanks for this ST1956.
I'm inclined to agree with Monsieur X. It doesn't seem credible to me that any woman would want to watch her husband partaking in gay sex even if he is out of favour. It was an enjoyable romp, though, in the best ST tradition. Four stars.
As always a master piece from a master writer. 5 from me, keep up the good writing never retire.
Another excellent piece of work! Not quite up to your usual standards ,but still quite good. That is just my opinion, which is worth less than the paper it is written on.
Sorry I have to post as Anonymous but Lit won’t let me sign into my account.
Munchie184
Hmmm. I have to agree with some of the others. It does seem rushed and entirely predictable although well written. This plot has been done to the point of boredom, I wonder when a new one will emerge.
Rambo is back! While about as sophomoric as it gets in lit, sometimes a little Saddletramp mind candy is a fun read. If Clive Cussler wrote erotica, he would be saddletramp.
Hey Karnevil, we're still waiting on you to write a story and show all of us how to do it right. Or is complaining about everyone's stories all you got???
Now that was a let down!! Darren and a couple of his people could at least have gotten shot. Pretty pathetic security crew he had in my opinion. They rolled over like a beached Alpha whale.
"especially after the rather serious discussion he had with his father and uncle earlier." - This sounds like an important discussion that's going to be critical to the plot, so why haven't we seen it? Just so that it can be pulled out like a Deus ex machina later? Yep!
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Why the fuck would his wife enjoy seeing him humiliated or worse?
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@Silvermire, who's going to die? Maybe their marriage? Heh, MattblackUK beat me to it!
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A couple of twists, but just another hubby with all the answers.
Good plot. I thought the execution was just so-so. A "Reader's Digest" treatment, to borrow a phrase. More character development needed maybe (especially for Janice, who's a pretty terrifying bitch, but comes off as a cardboard sketch). Still better than 90% of the stuff on here, but not up to my high Saddletramp expectations.
Thank you for writing another great story.
I enjoy reading all your stories over and over and always looking for the next story.
This story-line premise has been done-to-death, don't you think? If the husband had all that intel months before, then why didn't he act on it if for no other reason than to save his marriage before she did anything to break it?
Sorry but the actions taken were just not logical, given the circumstances. Why wasn't he "mic'ed up" from the beginning? Or armed himself or in his luggage?
Welcome back ST. 5 stars as usual. However, I feel you left out too many details/descriptions of her affair, and the takedown of the complex.
Wish you had gone into the future a little here. You know, written a little about the fatal accidents that both Janice and Eve suffered shortly after their release. But, I can wait for your summer stories.
Great to have you back. I know your stories are fiction but I find it easy to believe the base facts could be true. Always a great read.
This was so much a story as a short-hand telling of your typical plot line. You can, and have done better. This was just lazy. Two stars.
I love your stories! Would just like to see the cheating wives show more remorse and truly realize all they've lost. I also never understand how women who supposedly love their husband's go this far against them for men they know don't love them and are just using them. Sad.
You don’t get to watch your husband get raped, drugged, blackmailed, threatened with possession of child porn, financially ruined, turned into a eunuch and then say “but you know I really love you”.
What in the absolute fuck are you talking about? That is a woman with a mental illness. That’s like an abusive husband beating the shit out of his wife while calmly saying “I love you” as he breaks her ribs, knocks out her teeth and smashes her orbital socket. But it’s ok because he loves her. He really does.
Smdh
Really good to see again in action one of the rare authors that don't poison the LW category with tons of femdom fetish cuck fantasies. And as we all can see, from the really low evaluation to those kind of tales, the vast majority of readers of this category, disliked them very much and really appreciate a well written story in a well balanced way. A good cup of oxygene in all this endless pollution. Keep going. 5+ * !
I enjoyed the story, but I do have a little bit of a problem with it.
It begins with an ex-Marine 'uneasy' about his wife's behavior and work situation, with some 'suspicions' regarding the couple's long weekend plans as her employer's guests. Before going on this weekend trip, he calls his father, telling him of his suspicions, and receives some vague advice. Upon arriving at their weekend destination, his suspicions increase after seeing her boss's unexpected 'security' precautions. Then, during a walk about the property with his 'hostess', she informs him of (and he records) the plans for what will be happening there, and what they 'expect' of him.
He immediately calls his 'uncle', sends him the recording, and we readers find that an 'assault' operation to raid the compound, involving aircraft and presumably dozens of personnel, is suddenly already in progress.
Nothing of this obviously pre-planned sting operation or its planning was previously mentioned in the story.
Do you see the problem .... feels like a lot of the story is 'missing' right out of its middle.
This story is reminiscent of the old 'whodunit' TV detective vehicle wherein the detective conveniently 'solves' the mystery by citing clues and evidence that the viewer never saw or heard of during the show.
I guess the tactic worked (sort of) back then, and works here as well, to a degree, but I can't help feeling it is just a bit unfair to the reader.
So .... 4/5
Great story. Love your writing. One minor point. You referred to Tom as a "former Marine"...no such thing. Once a Marine, always a Marine. They are just "retired Marines".
Pathetic. Pathetically usual, hackneyed, boring. There must be thirty of these wife promo/sequestered weekend/alpha predator/LRRP reaction stories. You'd think that by now every single mc in every single LP story would know better than to put themselves in that situation. The only story left unwritten in this niche is the one where the hubby refuses to allow his wife to go.
5 stars, but this story could have been much better if (1) they also reversed any damage that was possible to reverse to the former assistants' husbands, (2) punished the other sluts, and (3) the author COULD have given the whore a higher sentence, wouldn't have been that hard to write.
Yay for Marsha (one of the reasons for 5 stars).
Excellent! As a good shot of high-quality lubricant squirted into the creaky gears of a tired machine brings relief, this story did the same for LW. It was a walk-off Grand Slam. You injected a long overdue break in the unending, monotonous string of poorly written, largely plotless, word salad mashup offerings of cuckoldry. Five stars+! Thanks!
I'm surprised. Saddletramp's stories are usually quite a bit more interesting. This one stunk. Just average 3 stars, and it didn't deserve those. That's just out of respect for Saddle's contributions. It was predictable right from the beginning and devoid of emotion and as flat as can be. Luckily it was short and relatively painless.
I had to pause this about halfway through because i had a thing to do, just as the horrible stuff was being revealed. I was worried for a moment about where it was going, but then I remembered - this is SaddleTramp! And of course, you delivered. 5 stars. Always a pleasure, sir.
what do people want? it was great, especially when you figure the guy found a better, kindred spirit. 5 stars, although the guy was marine. At least he was Force Recon. The Bear definitely approves. I can't wait for the summer stories. Keep writing, boss.
The BEAR
5* as usual. It was a wonderful break from the "slaphappy cuckfest" that Loving Wives has devolved into! I am looking forward to the Summer Stories!
Jeez, how many coincidences does it take to fill in a plot hole? Not one of your better efforts.
I almost forgot,LOL.if I had a nickle for every for every POAGUE I've met who claimed he'd been a Scout/Sniper..........................................