All Comments on 'Prodigal Father'

very arousing story......gay incest is best

Prodigal does not mean what you think it means. It would be a good idea to check your definitions before submitting your work. It is one of my biggest peeves.

Prodigal:

–adjective

1.

wastefully or recklessly extravagant: prodigal expenditure.

2.

giving or yielding profusely; lavish (usually followed by of or with ): prodigal of smiles; prodigal with money.

3.

lavishly abundant; profuse: nature's prodigal resources.

–noun

4.

a person who spends, or has spent, his or her money or substance with wasteful extravagance; spendthrift.

The reference to "Prodigal" is to the biblical story of the Prodigal Son. A reversal. Get it? (Apparently not)

I got the reference immediately. Love your stories!!

over semantics. This is a good story but a sad one. Stories of Father/Son incest are all too rare. The relationship can be very rewarding. This is a good example of what might have been.

Duh...I got it right away. The Biblical story isn't about the go away and come back that everyone thinks it is either. So it's not just semantics.

Maybe "Long Lost Father" would be a better title.

It's your story and I've wasted enough time on it already.

OK, I get it, jrigg, you're too busy being anal retentive to try to understand creative writing and the process of choosing story titles. (Got you to read it, didn't it?) I believe it gave the reader a good clue on the construct of the story--which is the purpose of a title. I think you're maybe reading in the wrong corner of the Web. I suggest "Scientific American." (Bet you zapped the story in the ratings too just because of the title.)

By, the way, jrigg, the definitions you provided were incomplete. Def 2 for the noun "prodigal" in Webster's is "one who has returned after an absence." This was the connotation I was using--although adding the irony that he had to be tracked down initially. (His emotional return to his son came subsequently and was what the son used to punish him for leaving in the first place--which is the key to the story.) I used the word in the extrapolated sense of "wayward." I'll take it as your problem that you have tunnel vision (and tailor your definitions to your narrow needs). Your suggestion for a title is really flat, you know--which I don't find surprising.

I read the title as refering to the manner in which Steve squandered his initial relationship with his family. He was prodigal in a financial sense, believing money solved all problems, but not emotionally and he reaped the rewards of that.

Initially I found the taciturn nature of his growing sexual relationship with Ty too brisk and undeveloped but re-reading in the light of the conclusion the build up makes more sense. An intriguing moral parable and well up to your customary standards.

"The first time Ty fucked his father was a couple of weeks after this pattern had set in."

I think this turning-point sentence is an awesome move, sr71plt. The sentence's construction gives the already-expected act of incest such a blunt revelation. Rather than letting the fact of their fucking unfold (as most other authors might have done), you acknowledge the inevitability of the act. Somehow this struck me as unbelievably titilating--and the erotic (if not narrative) climax of the story.

This is my best attempt at descibing this sentence's (and the story's) effect. Can someone else help me out?