Her 50th

She's such a gLaurieously lovely sexy lady, I hope you write another chapter where they both truly become one

This is the second story of yours I have read. ‘Waiting’ is the other. Yes both have very similar outcomes, but both are a bit different. I think I understand others frustration in the lack of conclusion… however, life doesn’t offer us many conclusions that we can except. And also, sometimes life offers us conclusions that we wish we could change. It’s my belief that its just best to draw your own conclusions, instead of being spoon fed the authors desired outcome. 5 stars for both AND I WILL be reading more of your tales. ;-)

While I enjoyed your story I must admit to skipping pages just to get to the finish. I haven't read your other story and if is this long I won't.

You're not wrong in that both my stories you cite have very similar outcomes. I don't know your personal situation, or even your age, but almost anyone who reaches a certain point in life feels that they've become tied to the place they happen to be, and the life they've made for themselves there. Regardless your feelings, it isn't always possible to uproot yourself - or expect someone else to do so -to make those feelings more than a wistful memory. It isn't really relevant to the story why these people appear to be single at such a point in life - in fact, there's nothing saying they are or aren't. The point of both stories is that these people met, for at least a fleeting moment, and found something together, even if it couldn't be permanent, then were forced by that thing called Real Life to return to where they'd started, with nothing more than memory to hold onto.

Regardless, thank you for the critique. The fact you were able to make such an observation means you gave each story - both admittedly long - enough of your time to find such a similarity. I'm glad that even for the similarities, you thought they were well done, and the action sufficiently arousing. I also appreciate the time you took to write your comment. I don't know how much of my other work you've tried, but it appears you've tackled two of the longest.

Than you for your time. I don't intend on writing more along this vein, but after writing the one, I can't honestly say I expected another to pop up.

Thanks again.

Susurrus

I've read two stories by this author. Both are long and involve endless (albeit titillating) sex scenes, but have the same plot. People who don't know each other very well get together and have close sexual and emotional involvement and then have to go home a long distance apart with almost no chance of either moving to the other's turf. The other story was "Waiting" and in neither story did we find out why there was no chance of them getting together and no exploration of possible alternatives. We are brought along with their intense involvement with each other and then dropped unceremoniously into sadness. I know that life doesn't always have a happy ending, but why did this author have to write it twice. "Waiting" was bad enough, but his one is worse because Allan drove for 35 hours each way for a half-day visit. That's just plain lousy planning. We don't learn anything about either person: what they do, why they're both single at relatively older ages, what is so restrictive about their lives that prevents even a long-distance relationship (which I agree, never work). I gave it a 3*, but one of these stories deserves a 5* and the other a 0* for good writing, but repetitious. Figure out a way to solve this dilemma and write a third one.