All Comments on 'Love Long Gone'

I hope you'll continue this story line. Great detail.

The best I have read on this site

Very nice

Well written story conveying the feelings of two very different people finding each other. The picture of the island, it’s wildlife and woodlands was well done.

Quite an enjoyable read. Thank you for sharing.

This is a wonderful, very superior bit of storytelling with almost too little eroticism but magnificent and beautiful despite that. This writer is a first class writer, a master craftsman,

I hope she brings him a new life, and children to liven up the island! Five Stars!

"Already in Favorites".

So much for voting early and often...wry grin.

Another 5 stars for you Ms Penny!

"for loss and loneliness can sometimes be just tricks and saints come in all forms.

Some of them - some of them - even bring treats on dark and stormy nights."

Another great story TP.

This was a wonderful story. It had nice characters who felt pretty real. Well done!

One of the most enjoyable reads I have read on this site!! Thanks for sharing.

Thank you

I appreciate all those kind words. Vote scores are nice, but comments like these are what stokes a writer’s fires.

The build up was special and the conclusion intense.

Thank you.

But I cannot think of any improvement to offer. The character design was one of the top five I have read on this website. Also 5* is too low. Thanks for this story. It must have taken a lot of time to create!

I went back to reread this story for the second time the same day. What a great story! The characters are so well described that you can see the feelings that each of them are fighting with. It is easy to see Iris’s love for JL and you can’t help but cheer her on to find a way to break through. It is also a story that you can’t put down and that you want to continue. More chapters with these characters would be great. 5*. Thank you.

One of the best story on the site. 5 stars

Thank you for a very good story. Great writing (loved some of the subtle humor intertwined into the main character's musings to himself), great story development, and very well written. Thank you!

I'm an empath and was drawn emotionally deeply into this story. I felt the love building between them. I'm not embarrassed to say I had tears in several places in this story. Especially pleased that the loving was clean and pure without xxx. Well done!

Very well written and although the ending wasn't what I expected it was beautiful.

You, sir, are my new favourite author. Thank-you for this story.

I was hoping you would continue their story. Please keep writing, you’ve done an amazing job!!

I keep coming back to read this wonderful love story again and each time get the same emotions I got the first time. Their story begs to be continued. Like others, I keep waiting eagerly for another chapter.

This is a five star story, well written and easy to read. You have a way with words that just paints a picture of the characters and what is going on, it's almost like I'm right there with them. Everything was so sensual and building up to the main event until you wrote about her "boobies". It just seemed to be out of place with the amount of mature love and tenderness that was taking place between the two. Actually made me laugh because of the, to me, juvenile word for her breasts.

It's still a very rewarding love story that I think is awesome, thanks.

I cast Daniel Day Lewis and Rose Leslie in my head. But the writing was what made this story great. I too would love to read more with these characters.

Dear Author, A very nice love story. Thank you, jntiques/john

A broad-base delightful tale without a smidgen of condescension. Well done! Well done indeed!!!!! 5*****(In other words, I liked it a whole lot!)

YOMEYO

I could search for a better story to vote for, but it would a hard search. So I think I will just vote for this one. You are such a wonderful "Story Teller". Why search further.

Thank you,

Jim Diamond

Thanks for writing TarnishedPenny.

I enjoyed the story. This is the first I have read of your works and is very encouraging. Now I will read a few more.

What a lovely story! I hope there’s another chapter someday.

Wonderful story, though it deserves a sequel.

Gave it 4 stars only for no conclusion.

Enjoyed it but I wanted more. I suppose it is selfish but I want to see them get closer and to deal with their differences. To be in love, have children, and live a good life together.

I found this to a sweet and satisfying story. It didn’t feel rushed or contrived. I appreciste your hse of language to build a setting and background. I’m extremely grateful for your command of the mechanics of good writing that I don’t need to edit as I read, allowing the story to flow as it ought.

Personally I don’t think it needs another chapter although I’d love to read one, truly excellent story telling, thankyou

Lovely story. Splendidly told. Only wondered about birth control. Bare back is ok only if she is protected from an accidental pregnancy. It does cry for a sequel.

Really well-constructed story. Wonderful writing and set up/ plot. Masterful and romantic...even the sexual part was truly tasteful---not sordid like so many I have read. Thank you!

I want more, and I suppose I am not alone. How their life goes, what she does professionally, and if they change or grow as a couple because of that, the possibility of children, does he re-engage with the world a touch more, etc., are all fertile grounds for future creativity.

And yet, of course, we have met these people when they were different from the rest of us. The story of who each is, and how they found each other and reached out to each other and became a couple, told so *very* well, is what is unique about them. Now that they are together, and in love, and much of the mystery of each of them removed, their story becomes more like many of ours, but with the individual flavorings of these two characters, these two... people.

Please write on if you have strong ideas of our couple, but thank you for what you have shown us of them, and, you have left them well...

Five for you

I cannot tell you how much I enjoyed this story. Excellently written! I just wish there was a sequel. How about it?

I love this story, here for a happy re-read.

I'm sorry I've been on LIT for so long without finding your stories! Beautifully done!

Your best! Such excellent character presentation!

I really liked this apart from the last sentence, that just spoiled it for me, you just had to do a little more.

It is a very good story, and of course i liked it. But I can also - somewhat - agree with oldtwit. It is not necessary, while the next to last is, and perfectly sums up the idea of the story.

But I did like the use of 'tricks' and 'treats' ...

And it is almost funny that the stories listed as 'similar stories' are already on my list of favourites...

Excellent writing, I'll be reading some of your other works.

Excellent story, a soft gentle build up, the story pretty much stripped back to its bones, with just enough for her to fall in love with her rescuer and decide to rescue him from his self imposed exile, I thoroughly enjoyed it. 5⭐️ regards, Ppfzz.

Great story. Well drawn characters and plot. I do wish I knew more about her and her background. However, unlike many reviewers I don't advocate for follow-up stories. I like the idea of imaging what becomes of them and their refuge. That way there are as many "next stories" as there are readers.

A GREAT READ !

THANK YOU !

You did it again….

Great story. Thank you for sharing.

Beautiful, just as everything else you’ve written that I’ve read has been. A very easy 5⭐️’s

“The girl obviously knew something about cooking” as did the author, as she does about punctuation and grammar. Full marks for a middle aged man sporting something other than a bulging wallet.

Utterly beautiful. Tender, warm, smooth. Quite delightful.

That was a beautiful well crafted story