by qhml1
....We never really learn why Henry felt the need to play the "long game" from the beginning -- keeping the house in his Dad's name, the furniture purchases, etc. Did he know Ginger was a cheating skank from the get-go? Why marry her if so?
The other WHY that's missing is what turned her into such a cold-blooded bitch....
Still a fine offering Q, thanks for your continuing contributions to Lit!
I love your writing but this one could have been better. You could have worked it into a real story. With more character development. But it's better than anything written today. Waiting for your next real story.
He hooked up with someone he went to school with, so who was the same age as him, not younger.
for a sunny September afternoon break from work.
And now? Back to work!
Thanks for sharing!!!
I should have guessed what this story was about. I know that you "tough guys" really like this kind of fantasy, but knocking out her car's headlights and taillights when seen by the cops would have been all they'd have needed to take him in. Don't you have any idea about the current domestic violence overkill that exists?
What does this have to do with him being selfish? Twice, SHE says that she enjoys it with the right man.
He, UNSELFISHLY decides that she doesn't really like it all that much, so only takes it when she decides to give it.
Well, I like it, somewhat sparse, but eminently satisfying for sure. One little quibble about the ammunition going off in the fire. Totally harmless, because it is not confined in the chamber of a firearm with a barrel to direct the projectile elsewhere in a hurry. I will give you the fact that using your timeline most fire departments lacked that knowledge then. Today, I would be very surprised if they took that position at a house fire.
I guess it was too perfunctory, too planned and canned. The bitch obviously did not know or care about the man she married. She didn't just want to leave him, she wanted to injure, abuse, humiliate, and damage him, financially and emotionally. Isn't that kinda sorta psychopathic? How did he ever find anything of substance or virtue in this woman to begin with? So the marriage didn't make sense, and the way the marriage ended didn't make sense.
Still, it was well written and interesting if not fun to read. Thanks for your time and effort. And as always, thanks for having the balls to allow anonymous comments. Have to smirk at the pussies who write about indignant macho take command husbands, but who can't endure comments from readers they can't comment back to. Obviously, were ALL anonymous here for practical purposes.
Thanks again.
A 3 star story from some who usually gives 4-5 star stories.
He smashes her cell phone and divorces her. 27 years later he takes his new wife on a cruise. Hmm.....
I really am a fan of your work, but there was an overall feeling to this one that just rubbed me the wrong way. May be because it just didn't offer any challenges.
The reader wasn't challenged.
And it seemed that as an author , that you weren't challenging yourself at all.
I DID have issues with the plot, but really any of those boil down to nitpicks. So let's leave the plot alone. What if, ALL of this was revealed from HER side of the story. Everything that happens exactly as plotted, is revealed to the reader from HER POV. First off, then the confounded epilogue could have been removed, but more important. secondly, you could have given us exactly what MOST EVERY one of these types of stories is and always has been missing:
Insight into what , where, how, and WHY IN THE HELL, any (assumedly previously) sane women act like this in the first place.
I think this could have presented more a challenge to you as author, and given the reader something more useful this morning than "just the usual" formula of
stupid woman/ resilient and resourceful man.
All of this is offered with my sincere thanks and great appreciation of your efforts. I really was excited to see a new story from you today. That excitement stands up past the disappointment of actually reading it. But despite the disappointment, this is still 3.5/ 4 stars; the disappointment being that I can't rate you a five that you ought to deserve.
Till the next...........
Of course he has her on tape and cell phone attempting to blackmail him. Of course he has absolutely ZERO emotional attachment to her. Of course he hooks up with a younger and hotter woman. Of course her life goes to shit.
Of course it does.
I didn't read the story, but based solely on who wrote it, I award it five stars!
(That's how we do things here, right?)
i do love a truly heartless cruel bitch, so much more believable than the "please it was a mistake, i love you so much" cheating wives we normally get.
it was a good storyline, i would like to see it rewritten as a more realistic and dark tale.
This is a very good short story having all the ingredients to be funny and be a easy and satisfying read...Nothing less was expected from this writer...4*
"Why not take her at her word?"
Why does he have to be a selfish asshole and pork her in her asshole? Women get nothing from anal as they don't have a prostate, men like it because roughly two-thirds of their nerve-endings were lopped off at birth.
“but stopped, thinking she would claim it was mine” – So? She can CLAIM it all she wants, a simple paternity test will prove that it isn’t!
Earlier she said, “Don’t be here when I get back,” now she’s mad that he hasn’t already left?
"I wasn't happy, and hadn't been for a long time. I hated our house burning down, hated the move here, hated leaving our friends.” – You’re not happy, so you take it out on him? YOU burned down the house!
She says about anal, “I actually like it, with the right man,” then, “She says she likes it, but I think she only does it to please me.” Why not take her at her word?
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Very funny, very entertaining, and a quick reminder of just how talented many of the LW "legends" are (and how much we miss you guys when we're only left with, well you know...)! But... Is it just me or is there something a little bit sad here too? Well I suppose that is how truly fine comedy should be written, bittersweet.
there is only one true betrayed cuck on these boards, and he is on these boards 24/7, reading, spanking, commmenting.
Truly the ultimate betrayed cuck.
Sometimes a short little humorous story is just enough to keep you going , wading through all the pseudo Cuck writers ( pseudo because they simply cannot admit their gay urges , so they use this old fallback trope instead ) , and the paint by number Hotwife stories that are just plain stroke drivel ( I guess for some ) .
No , its the stories of this type , short ones that are not exactly your Jihad series , or 500 Annies , or Boston to Birmingham class heavyweights , but just enough to keep us going through these Hungry , Hungry times in LW . For that reason alone ( plus the fact that it was a good read ) that I say
5 *'s
I'm a long-time married woman who has never cheated nor been cheated on. And I really enjoyed it! But then, I like people who can see the handwriting on the wall and make a plan to extricate themselves from a diificut situation. ESPECIALLY if they can keep their sense of humor while doing so! *****
Yes, it has a few flaws.
But then again it has a lot of humour
and says what needs to be said.
Loved the comment about the wife's
name not being important.
It is important, of course, but the
idea of it not being that, just added
a curve to my smile.
I love your input qhml1 and salute
a great writer!
Too little development in this story. 3
would find this drivel entertaining.
worse phone-in than a ss06 story
two stars
Great tale. Encompassing the whole of a lifetime in just two pages. I am never disappointed by your work. Oh, by the way, ignore the haters. They know naught.
Five Stars
Maybe it's me...it's just that...it seemed like...well I thought...oh forget it.
Properly Presented Preamble? check.
Thorough Explanation; past, present, and future? check.
Tidy Ending? check.
Extended Epilogue, projecting out more than 1/4 century? wow...really? check
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And yet I find myself wholly unsatisfied, if not inexplicably bewildered.
Yeah, yeah, you're right, you're absolutely correct...it's me...it is 100% just me, yep just little ole me...s'ok I'll let myself out.
Great little story, Q. Right down the line, just a fun satisfying little story. As good a two page story as I've read. A five from me. Now... about that Western...