Ghost on the Wind

Good story, but I feel you left out too much of the wife’s side of the story during her 6-weeks away and after her return. I don’t think anyone married for 25 years could simply turn off feelings and completely change their personality that quickly. I’m not being critical, just pointing out things that seemed missing in an otherwise well-written story.

I enjoyed this one. The fact that the cheaters remained unpublished said it all: both cause and effect of their cheating.

@26thNC - You are too kind. Thank you.

A bit longer than J_W’a usual work, but as good as anything he’s ever written. Another in a long line of great stories from a master.

Well done.

Well written. Enjoyed the story and the description going through the various states and his meeting with his daughters. MC was a soft touch and reacted to things. Intelligent but not proactive. Being an engineer, he should have wired the house for phone calls after the first suspicious one, and then monitored. He gets a PI when he knows things are going down. Yes he has a talk with Karen beforehand but it was toothless. Having her own words (and Frank's) played back to her, would have at least probably disrupted the whole workshop nonsense, thiugh she had probably cheated. Don't get me wrong Karen is an evil bitch. So his confronting her about her premeditated marital assassination and lies before the workshop is not to save the marriage, it is for his own self esteem and filing for divorce before she leaves or having her served remotely when she lands there. By waiting, he lost agency and just reacted (for thr most part). Once he saw the bareback sex, that finally broke him and he started his drop the mic exit. Makes for a dramatic story element but seems unappealing in real life. The divorce was going to be on thr same terms regardless. And his leaving for Maine was unstoppable. He can just give power of attorney to his lawyer. She can drag her heels and whine about fighting a divorce but she can do that even with him gone out of state. He can still deny her any access to him. She sounds a bit off her rocker anyways. So confrontation with irrefutable audio before the workshop and his filing on her proactive change very little but do give him a cleaner break without all the negative fallout for his psyche. Maybe his daughters would have been harder to appease but any evidence he gathered with monitoring his house calls / home would have made it clear to his daughters what is going on. While the drop the mic exit is in alignment with the title, it is only a dramatic plot device if the cheating spouse has serious regrets. Karen is too psycho to think rationally but any th ING after he sent the three photos and his saying "I divorce thee" three times in an email (that was a nice touch btw). But to each their own. 5 stars for the writing.

I was sorry to see the story end, on page three. That tells you how much I was enjoying it. Five stars.

JPB NOT BOB

Excellent, no more, no less. So you failed to satisfy the BTB bloodlust of some cretins, tough! Thank you, I'd certainly sit and share a meal and a drink with this man and tell him he had done things just exactly the right way and to enjoy his new life.

How could friends ring to support him?.Apart from his best mate he never told anyone he was leaving and how can they visit as he told no one where he was going?.

Only thing I'd have liked you to add was him telling his wife she's delusional an in desperate need for a reality check and intense counselling