All Comments on 'Heads I Win, Tails She Loses'

Honestly thought the coin was the same at both sides like at the end when he was deciding his wife's fate like he took out a different coin or something. But this is good too :)

No matter what she did before she was married, she was a fool to give in to blackmail, you can never pay them off. She did not trust her husband at all, ever. NEVER should he consider to take her back or even to screw her unfaithful ass, ever. Good story made us think.

Trust no one, don't bother being trustworthy yourself. Everyone is unfaithful at one time or another.

Good solid work!

Damn you're good

The author says some will think it isn't complete. Nah...it's complete, and it's good. Walked a fine line between BTB and compassion, well done.

...and LOVE will mend the fence. She and Jack will take care of good old blackmailer!

Jack knows he'll always love her and he really knows she loves him and was not just scared but stupidly foolish. He also noticed that he witnessed the fact that she Did Not enjoy the sex and the call imploring him to get out of the house to save himself...he knew, she would never screw up again and he never really lost her love, emotion or caring for him so...

Nice tail...pun intended!

It ended in the right spot, where we readers can muse about the ultimate outcome.

A marriage means many things. One it is a partnership. Try and screw my wife over, you'll deal with the face of death, me. Try and screw me over and you'll face my wife, something that will leave you dead and gutted.

So, dear fucking cunts out there, trust your husband. You are a team, a partnership, you and her against the rest of the world. If you can't trust, there are two choices. One, run. run as if the hounds of hell are on your heels, because they are. Or two, when the hounds of hell get to you, your body should be cooling.

Not as grim as some of your stuff. Gave it a 4.

...and I like the way it ends with a glimmer of hope. The "letting the fates decide" theme reminds me of Luke Rhinehart's great book "the Dice Man", one of my all-time favourites.

liked this one. I generally favor BTB, but once Lauren and Jack started talking, I began leaning toward some form of reconciliation. I, too, liked the way this one ended - especially with Gina's flip. Without knowing about that, however, ending with Gina saying "Game on." would also have been an excellent ending.

FTDS, where the hell are you when you're needed so badly???

Open ended endings that I like. Well done!

5*

I know that the cheating wife hasn't got a chance. The last flip was tails which means she loses.

How's that?

I'm not usually a fan of "unfinished" stories, but for this one it seems to fit.

I for one would be sad for whichever woman lost.

After reading some of the older comments I looked up this story, and was disappointed that it used a trope that I can never understand, the "I've never had sex with anyone else" BS.

As I have said before, "So what?"

If you cheat on your spouse "To see what it is like" to be with someone else, what good can come from it?

If the sex with the other person is no better, then you've basically cheated for nothing, and you STILL don't know that someone ELSE might be better.

If the sex IS better than with your spouse, now what? Will you be satisfied to live with less satisfying sex? If so, then wouldn't it be better to not even know? And if not, what are you going to do about it? Divorce? Continue to cheat?

Any way you look at it, either experiment before committing, or live with your choice.

Consciously, she made only two BAD decisions.

First, getting into drugs... Then trusting a blackmailer about anything.

I'm not saying her (and by extension, their) lives wouldn't have turned to complete crap if she hadn't... but that might have been crap in which she still was married without a serious worry of it being otherwise.

About the only responses to a blackmailer should be either telling them to fuck off... Or killing them.

And yeah, if you consider that unreasonable, you should accept that she did the best she could under trying circumstances. You can't have it both ways...

It asks all the questions, clearly defines the issues, and puts it in the hands of the pertinent players for them to decide what happens next.

A complete well written story it is. One might add what the outcome of the blackmailer's antics ensued. Cheers!

Depending on your intent. As a vignette of 3 people's lives, it's okay. Not my cup of tea since I like finished products. As a story about 2 people's lives, it's incomplete. But so many authors write stories like this (the non-ending) that is an epidemic. A guy named JPB is the master of the non-ending. The writing was good. The non-ending sucked, therefore I can't give the partial story a good number.

Or rather the readers' feelings toward the ending. It could certainly have a followup chapter, no problem. But even though this is a fictional story I just can't shake the feeling that he's in real trouble. Everything he's done is right there on the tablet. The speakers are in the house, the window is glued shut, the locks are changed and the garage door is reprogrammed. He's even made the mistake of moving his things out of the bedroom. It seems that the real ending to this mess would be in Court with her attorney getting her 100% of the marital assets and him MAYBE avoiding jail time. She even has Gina to testify to all his planning. And a good attorney takes her blackmailer to Court, gets her damages and him significant jail time. So unfortunately, the logical person in me sees a much different ending than what has been written. Where's FTDS when you need him?

I have read this one again...

And I went though many of the comments.

I'd like to add a suspicion that Jack, by flipping a coin, was trying to find a way back to Lauren. He couldn't find a way by himself... he couldn't get to anyplace good by reason... so he committed himself to chance.

Perhaps not what the author intended, but I kind of like the idea.

Green-something

It leans neither this way, or that. It leaves it entirely up to the reader to decide their future, depending on which side of that coin flip your views tend to land.

I don't agree with some comments that insinuate that she was a victim. She was blackmaiked. So what? She still had a choice to make, and choose she did. She chose secrecy, she chose to protect her past, over her husband, over her marriage, over her trust in her husband's love.

She didn't enjoy it? Again, so what? What if her boss hadn't wanted sex? What if he blackmailed her to kill an ex wife, or a business competitor? Unless she was a psychopath, she certainly wouldn't have enjoyed that, either. So, if she chose to do it, would she be forgiven? After all, it would still be blackmail, and she still wouldn't have enjoyed it. But of course, she wouldn't choose to kill someone, because she has a sense of right and wrong, she has a conscience, and she couldn't look at herself in the mirror, if she did. But, she could forgive herself for cheating, (after all, she chose to do it), because her husband's love was merely something that could be conveniently set aside, when her self image was at stake! She did it out of love, alright, but out a love for herself. She said she never wanted to hurt him, but she chose exactly that option, time and again.

Personally, I tend to believe he walked away from her. Love is like a star. It burns intensely and hot. It outshines everything around it. Gradually, over the years, it cools, but it also expands far beyond what it was. Everything you are revolves around it. When someone cheats, it makes that love explode, just like a super nova. It shatters. Cheating creates a blackhole in the centre, around which everything now circles. Just like a blackhole, cheating is invisibly in the background, always there, putting a gravitational strain on everything that follows, destroying all that was there before it, eating everything that comes after it. It's inescapable, always there, and when you get too close, it rips you apart. Yes, you can rebuild a new world, from the ashes of a supernova, the ingredients are all there, waiting to come together, but you can never rebuild that same love. It's gone, once shattered. You can spend the rest of time, scratching out an existence, spending all your time trying to avoid that destructive singularity around which your broken world now revolves. Or, you can build a whole new world with someone else, and live there in comfort and happiness. But here's the key. You MUST first leave that destructive blackhole far behind you!

With apologies for my meandering ramblings.

Unusual scene. No "revenge" in the activities, as Lauren chose her path, and then didn't trust that Jack would or could save her. Gina is a different story, but she is entitled to take advantage of what fell into her lap.

Good to read that Jack was actually as nice as he could be under the circumstances.

Super story, really enjoyed it and the characters. The characters all seemed real and believable to me on the pages. I really enjoyed the element of chance with the use of the coin toss and the simple setup with the sound system. The story seems ripe for a second installment. Where the blackmailer’s foiled? Did a reconciliation occur? Were lives rebuilt or were new lives lived?

Thanks for the fun story and please keep writing!

Interesting mixing of emotions as Lauren's story comes out. In the end though, her dishonesty was depressing. Who was she really, what had she done that was so bad that her husband couldn't know about it? Why had she not mentioned her "wild college days" in passing while they were just dating? She should have said something at that time after a couple first has sex, and then goes into a sort of sexual history to get it out of the way. She would not have had to get too specific, just mention booze, drugs, crazy parties and sex. Instead she lied to him completely by omitting and part of the truth to him. How can you be married to that kind of person? What other things has she not mentioned? If you can't trust her on the basic stuff, how could you trust a person like this to be the mother of your children? She is a selfish coward, not fit to be married or have children.

open ended does not mean incomplete.

great story TTT, personally i would like to see the two reconcile ..... but if the bartender gets him he will be happy ...... I love the idea of a happy ending for the guy no matter how it turns out

and I had just finished reading a newspaper article on female psychology.

And that makes this story work MORE for me. Bear in mind, nothing exonerates fully. In a perfect world, the brainy wife would team up with her brainy husband and would come up with some caper to turn the tables on the blackmailer in a painful, discreet and plausibly deniable way. (See Big Ass Marine)

However...slut shaming is a thing. It is, and for a woman, it is HUGE. A woman who is known in her circle as a slut will lose HUGE amounts of status among men (who treat her as a festering cunt to masturbate in, but certainly not marry) AND women (who see her as a man stealing cunt who also makes it harder for other women to say no to things they don't like, like BJs or anal. Hard to say no to BF if Sally Roundheels over there is passing out BJs like candy.)

So a thought experiment. Say you are a teenaged guy, and you are busy nailing your 16 year old GF. And you turn 18...and Daddy GF is PISSED (as daddy's are wont to be at gents deflowering their daughters)

Except he goes to the cops and he has you registered as a sex offender.

Exactly how wildly known would you want that? Do you want to have that SAME TEDIOUS CONVERSATION with every single person you know? This is what the woman faced with that sex tape. Except that every slimy scumbag of a swinging dick will ALSO think she is now 'fair game'.

So her fears were rather real. Do not dismiss them lightly. Does it exonerate? No. But it certainly puts things in a grayer hue.

I gave it four stars instead of five because you're suggesting that he'll end up going back with the cunt who didn't have faith in her husband but, instead, kept fucking the other guy and repeatedly exposed him to HIV and STD's.

She's tough enough to fight for him NOW but NOT before she did the damage that LOST him. She doesn't deserve a second chance and to suggest that she does is simply an example of the culture of milquetoast Liberalism that's destroying our society. NO man can ever forget or forgive what he's seen and heard his wife doing. No matter how hard they try or what they do to salvage it, their marriage is ruined.

Ok, so finish it.

Leaving it open ended like this makes us the readers, provide our own closure. Many of us are too lazy or ignorant to know how to do that, hence the ambiguity rather than closure.

As sympathetic as the bartender is, she is also an opportunist and will do her best to land him "on the rebound". He doesn't deserve her, nor does she deserve him.

Lauren shot herself in the foot by not trusting him to be on her side and help come up with a way out of the situation. I can understand the helpless feeling in a blackmail situation. I think she has the capability to get him back and hope she manages it. She inadvertently set herself on the recovery trail when she sacrificed her dignity and pride to try to make sure he got out of the house safely. That effort can count a lot in her campaign to regain his love.

Cute and well written. Kudos to you again.

But I crave more.

It's up to the author to decide where he leaves it. I'd like to read more about these characters, but I can live with the current ending.

What was so hard to figure out about that ending, people? Gina flipped Tails.... a loser. Bad luck... The cheater's going to win. (after he WATCHED her fuck the other guy... knowing she'd been doing it for months.)

burger made me hungry.. well thought out little mind fuck

I think it's nice...

I disagree with anonymous. With the coin flip there were always two choices: this drink or that one; nuts or pretzels. Lauren called heads; Gina flipped tails. Lauren made the call, not Jack. Jack may have given Lauren first shot, but without the coin, fate has said there's another option.

I gave it too stars because it was fun to read. But it's far from finished and y ou know it. Just a lazy writer like many others here.

It doesn't apply here, but one thing I hate is when the wife does MORE under the threat of blackmail than what she is being blackmailed for.

"If you don't fuck me I'll show your husband this video of you giving me a blowjob."

"If you don't give me your ass I'll show you husband this video of you fucking me."

In any case, giving into blackmail requires trusting the blackmailer, not exactly the most trustworthy person!

They always seem to do more to hide the original deed than whatever happened during the original deed. And many more times. How can someone not realize this? Trusting the blackmailer? Seriously? That's as bad as trusting a serial cheater not to cheat.

but you couldnt resist the forced undeserved RAAC

forced , undeserved RAAC always deducts 3*

so net result is 2*

“Of course, that's what the bastard had said almost five years ago.” – So, he lied to her before, and she believes him now?

“She assumed it was work. Now she was certain he'd found them out.” – Let’s see; you’re cheating on your husband; he’s in a sour mood; could he know? Nah, it’s just work!

"It was only going to be once a week for less than three months. Then he swore it would be over.” – Yeah, blackmailers are SO trustworthy!

"You fucked another man in our home. In our bed. For months. You hid it from me, made me an unknowing cuckold. You treated me like crap for a month” – Let’s assume you could SOMEHOW get past the first part of that – why treat her husband like crap? She loves her husband, hates what she’s doing, why not treat him like a king?

30K in the house, insurance will cover repairs, without knowing the price of the house don’t know what real estate commission might be.

@Overthefalls Re: His Trouble – I think she showed by her phone call that she is NEVER going to reveal what she knows, and neither is Gina. The fire likely destroyed much of the evidence.

"You treated me like crap for a month" - I see that I brought this up before, but I've seen no answer: Is she REALLY treating him like crap, which would be a stupid thing to do, or is it more metaphorical, that by her cheating she is treating him poorly.

Another point regarding KarenE's referring to never having had sex with someone else; besides her very valid points, I have one more: Let's say she DOES find someone that the sex is better with, leaves her husband to go to the new lover. How does she know that there isn't someone STILL better out there?!

I like that you found a unique way to get to the end. I read these to be entertained and you always come through! Well done.

She was blackmailed and is effectively repeatedly raped, so he divorces her. Real nice guy. She would be better off without him.

Blackmail and rape are two different things, she could have told her husband and said fuck you the blackmailer. Fucking someone because they have something on you Is stupid because you’re giving them more ammunition against you. The only rapist here is you. Your rapping my eyes and time with your dumbassed comments.

Thought it was a route BTB story. Now I think there's more to it. It's much deeper. I don't have time to expound on it now. Perhaps later.

Maybe it's because I was a bartender during college, but I really got into the characters' heads....after several reads.

5-stars.

The reconciliation is still just a coin flip. I would bet against it.

Read it again. Stupid cunt. All she had to do was tell her husband about the blackmail. Oh well, stupid is as stupid does. Bye Bye slut.

A totally different slant to the usual story on this site. Well written. Now how about a story where the wife exposes her blackmailer to her husband and what follows her confession. It is unbelievable that these women don't realize that they are digging themselves deeper into the shit, when they give in to a blackmailer.5*s.

I don't know how I got reading in the Loving wives category most of these stories tear my heart out. I've never been married and if something like this happened to me, I probably wouldn't survive. This story was very good. It's like the clouds are not dark but a hopeful gray for this couple and if not there's the bartender.

she was overwhelmed. She should have told Jack, but that doesn't guarantee that he she wouldn't have to spend some time with the rat bastard. She did what she thought she needed to do, and Jack knows it. I think that in the long run she and Jack will find a way back to one another. I really liked this story because it was coerced sex, and she never bad mouthed Jack and so my ending is that they worked it out. A 4 Star Rating.

This most definitely is a reconciliation tale with a twist...gina joins them in bed as part of the healing process and they become a 3some for life

Number of problems with that:

1. Man is presented like a superman who moralize, and looks generally like a typical chauvinist. Not a likable character. Another thing is that for a guy like our writer TTT who writes incest stories between a father and a daughter it is hard to see where is that moral high ground TTT is standing on. It is harder to be more disgusting than in such incest fantasies that are just a tiny step apart from pedophilia.

2. Threesome fantasies are also totally absurd and they seem to be in a few of TTT stories. I don't believe you can find women so ready for that, and certainly not in the long run since your characters do not have much to offer than threats and macho attitude. Some women may like that but it gets worn out pretty fast.

3. All this macho bravado indicates an insecure male, our writer himself.

I still didn't like she didn't trust him enough to tell him but the call

The call

The call

Yes, she was stupid and fucked up big time. But given what happened with her friend, it was somewhat excusable. Very good plot development. It was made very clear she loved him so no problem with the ending. Jack wins no matter what but I'm pulling for the dumb bitch also.

Fuck you.

It is complete.

5 stars

I just love this story, but Dougie deserves a little more than the rose bush.

I suppose if you (the author) says it's finished, then it's finished but it doesn't 'feel' finished. That ending isn't an ending, it's a setup for a continuation and not a sunset ride to leave you wondering. It was interesting but without the rest of the story, it's just one scene from a tale that could have been very good.

Perfect. 5 stars

Clever plot and dialogue. Technically well written. An outstanding vignette.

Wow... there is a LOT in there for such a short story. Best short story I've ready here!

he made himself a cuck by letting her back in

but giving her a chance when you have a sexy bombshell in the waiting is stupid

Fine. I can supply my own ending. Good story.

Great short story as there is on this site. Personally I'm rooting for Gina and I spent a lot of time wishing he'd replaced the glass in the window with Lexan or added a nice set of decorative bars to the outside. One simple moral here is don't fuck another man in a Texan's marital bed, ever. Of course they have a tendancy to get a little bit pissed off in Michigan too especially ones that drive Mustangs and Jeeps. Signed: BTW

Excellent. Just good writing with well developed characters and all in 2 pages. Well done.

This was amazing plain and simple its the first story i can honestly say left not just feeling good but turned on as well and thats a real first since ive found this mostly fucked up site. This will be my first real favorited story here and proud of it. I'll be coming back to this story every time i need a little restoration in humanity from this site. I'll be happy for either of them getting him in the end but leaving it open like this is great too

The cheating slut would never win...ever!!!

She was also being blackmailed for things that happened before the marriage.

She was scared to death and felt like she would lose everything no matter what. She hambled and hated herself the entire time.

I dont know if i could stay married but i would do everything to help her. Especially due to the phone call.

I really liked this story, especially Jack. But I would've preferred an ending where he divorces her but helps her out by dealing with the blackmailer and giving her some financial support so she can start over. The wife was really dumb but she had a good heart.

this case however he is a right bastard. He knew she was being blackmailed. I understand initially he was devastated but he learns the truth after a while. I can still understand him being upset that she did not come to him after the first rape. And make no mistake she was raped repeatedly. The husband knew this and instead of helping it stop he sets out to destroy her in addition. He have them under surveillance so he knew the whole story. Quite frankly she deserves better than her husband. All he cares about is himself and he's a piece of garbage.

I might be more sympathetic if he had no idea about the blackmail and has remorse at the end but he knew about it after a time and he's still behaved cruelly

Laughing at starsong1077's hilariously stupid "reasoning".

I thought it was great ending. No more is needed. Great story!!! 5 *s

Just what I needed tonight

Another one to enjoy again, although ending still a little muddy.

I'll never understand a wife who says she loves him that much but doesn't trust him enough to help her. Good story but what happens with that hotty Gina?

I think this is great. What some damaged men really need (and even the reasonable ones) is a gesture from a woman showing love.

Lauren was being blackmailed and had to chose between a rock and a hard place. Like her most people would have taken the gamble on getting away with it. It's understandable that she chose to fall for the blackmail.

However, the phone call shows her love for Jack is genuine and hopefully if the story played out Jack would have forgiven her and taken her back with the appropriate amount of vengeance on the blackmailer.

Yawn....

Same old story on this site, the bitch cheats (blackmail or not it's no excuse.) Husband says he's hurt like never before, and yet the stain of RAAC is making it's way in.

Very good story, but I think both spouses were wrong. She clearly should have relied on him and taken whatever embarrassment came her way. He should see her regret and tried to repair the marriage. In the end, I suspect he will. Interesting story, but wrong-headed behavior.

Brilliant little story.

A lot of authors try to leave a story ending up to the reader and fail. Usually because during the course of the story you end up hating one of characters. You should be proud of this one. You walked a thin line and didn't fall. I think I will deviate from my usual and hope they make it.

Hell of a story. You made the "cheating" wife accessible and personable. Not a caricature. Suprisingly, I disliked the husband more than her. By the end of the story, I was actually rooting for Lauren.

My second read thru and I changed my vote from 4 to 5, excellent story⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Good story. Did you compose a follow up?

"You still could have told me. It was before we were married. I wouldn't hold it against you."

She shrugged. "Maybe you wouldn't. How about my work? My family? Your family? Our friends? Our church?"

"You're kidding, right?"

"Not at all. Debbie, the other girl found out the hard way."

Lauren knows Debbie got dragged through the mud. So Debbie told husband or the police? In a perfect world probably that would have stopped the whole blackmail process. But Debbie found out it wasn’t a perfect world.

So what if the skuzzball goes to jail, or Hubby/boyfriend is able to get at Jack, Jack could (and probably said he did) have some means of sending DVDs off should anything happen to him. There was reasonable chance armageddon was headed her way if she didn’t comply with Jack’s demands. What did Dick Cheney say as a reason to invade Iraq? Something like — If there's a 1 percent chance that al-Qaida has the ability to conduct a terrorist act, the United States must treat it as a certainty in terms of our response. And 75% of the U.S. was going, “No duh. That’s too high. We gotta invade.”

So, no, Lauren was stuck in an uber tight spot. An outside observer, with no skin in the game, should not say Laura should absolutely NOT done what she did. You have to keep in mind what happened to Debbie. If you do and you still say tell hubby/police, then fine.

Excellent. 5

Good story. Being left hanging isn’t always a bad thing. A follow-up would probably be anticlimactic.

I've always supported an author's decisions, after all they feed my need for good tales! Thank you for your stories, hope there will be more to come.

somewhere east of Omaha

TX, you've done me in, I shall by pass anything written by you. i hate unfinished stories or open ones. if you can't finish don't start.

Great story. Some commenters think that the tale isn't finished, certainly it is. Tx left the finish up to you when he left the coin on the bar. You reader/commenter flip the coin and whatever shows up is the finish. LP

Liked it! Well written and well told.

Clever story and a decent main character who can be hurt without losing his decency

The ending ,Readers, IS in your minds.

It's a good story, either in spite of or because of the open-ended ending. I can think of... 6 different endings offhand, all of which work.

It's a good story. The hell with the whiners.

Stupid people - a story is over when the writer says. Don't like that - write your own damn story! Thanks TTT, third time through. 5 stars

somewhere east of Omaha

RAAC fest, with a cuck that fucked her, knowingly, RIGHT AFTER she was done fucking another guy. No reason, no blackmail, no nothing, can explain him continuing to do that. "cleaned up" or not. sick, fucking pathetic, and lame. And to think he gives her another chance, after letting him fuck the same worn out, likely diseased hole after another guy, time and again? This guy needs therapy and Gina should seriously consider her own motivations, wnating a guy that could accept that bullshit from anyone. Awful.

A very good story. 5

She was blackmailed and done the wrong decision, and continued doing so. He saw the videos and understood her state of mind. And when she called, nude and durty while her house was on fire, he saw her first thoughts were about him.

Yes, she definitely has a second chance and the from the tone of things they will be back together.