All Comments on 'The Battle of the Crater'

Props for the Geeks among us!! I have reason to be in Elsmere from time to time. I think you should have put this in the non-erotic category.

THANK YOU for a nice story.

Thank you. There is a romance between Amanda and Lucy, and between Amanda and Steve. Mostly not explicit, but it's there. There will be more explicitness in future stories - although it will be about Lucy, even though Steve is in the picture too but he will probably will not be depicted. I've never been in Elsmere; I just picked it off a map.

This sort of story isn’t my normal cuppa joe, but this lifelong history geek had a grand time with it. Were I unattached and had I some more appropriate numbers on my birth certificate, I could easily imagine being thoroughly smitten by someone like Amanda. I would love to see if she gets anywhere with her New Yorker. Please, sir, some more?

Thank you. I myself at 68 am way too old for Amanda. You're in luck perhaps because I have started writing more. However, although Steve is in the picture, most of it will be about her continuing relationship with Lucy (and also how they met). There are excellent History Channel documentaries on YouTube about The Crater and Cold Harbor, among many others.

Quite a good read.

Thank you, Margot, I'm glad you enjoyed it.

While I enjoyed reading this, it certainly belongs in the Non-erotic category.

Ironically, I've been employed by the movie industry in the Houston area. I barely missed out on working Robocop 2 because I ended up getting connected with a man named Craig Busch just after it wrapped production. But I did lots of work for the next 8 years or so following that.

My biggest complaint is that you got the name of Tom Wolfe's novel wrong. I AM CHARLOTTE SIMMONS.

It isn't My name is...3/5

Yes, the name of the novel. I thought I had checked everything, like where the Metro stations are in Arlington and Bethesda. You have 13 stories, so you must know how hard it is to get all of those details right. (I've done 117, not including other sites.) In any case, I doubt I'm changing it now, considering what a hassle it is to make corrections on Lit. The movie-making details, I made up most of those. The battle itself I got from various sources. I still maintain that it belongs in Romance, which is the topic of the first and third (last) segments of the story. Anyway, thanks for reading it.

About six days ago I submitted a version that corrects the title of the Tom Wolfe novel. (I Am Charlotte Simmons.) Thanks to a reader who spotted the mistake. Hey, it only took nearly two months to find it! I suspect Lit will post the new version next week.