Goin' Fishin'

Read it again..

...and liked it just as much as the first time...

do more

love it next chapter ? soon I hope

wow

oh mai gosh .its sooooocute

Wonderful, simply wonderful

This story rises high into the pantheon of classic tales here on Lit., becoming one of my few I will read again and again. Kudos to the author!

Great story!

I love reading when the story is "fresh"! Well written, your grammar and spelling are perfect and characters are developed without the usual drivel! Bravo!

This is a 10 star story, but I can only vote 5 as I did

BUT I did NOT like the ending. NEVER NEVER NEVER make a PUBLIC proposal unless there is a long relationship with the obvious yes answer. A public proposal is a FORCED YES! YOU do NOT know what is in her heart in a heated lust/love romance. Give her a chance to think and maybe say no. She may say yes easily with a tinge of regret over a lost love who Might come back to haunt in the future with cheating. It's actually common and destroys lives...This story wants to say there was a romance for 13 years unrealized, so WHY didn't they try and find each other??? Sorry can't buy it ZERO reason to FORCE a girl to accept a public proposal.

I have not read

any better stories here.

Well thought out and developed.

Thank you a pleasant respite!

Loved the story, hated the ending, you don't put the engagement ring inside desert, they are at a country club so you don't throw desert, other than that I liked the story.

Still Great

I first read your story in 2007 and thought it was great. Still one one of the best.

Absotutly

The Best. All the quibbles are just that - quibbles. When I want my romantic stories to mirror real life I'll want them to end in divorce. The ring, the desert, the line he says - they're just great as is the rest of this delightful story.

I Love This Story 5*'s

The only thing I DID NOT like was the public proposal for marriage. That's almost never called for and doesn't give her a chance to kindly refuse as she deserves. Public makes her feel forced to accept. Why would you want a forced acceptance, even it wasn't??? I think a proposal of marriage should be alone with the one you dearly love, then shared. Sometimes the answer is so blatantly obvious that public is ok, but NOT in this story, so NO I did not like that part AT ALL...sometimes it's best why the yes isn't quite there yet before total commitment is made.

It has been 8 years since MA last posted a story on Lit

Does anyone know if he is using a different username or is posting on another site?

YOU DONT NEED WATER TO CATCH FISH

the best ones to land are usually in the deepest holes; TK U MLJ LV NV

I AGREE WITH SOME OF THE COMMENTS

This story is not finished yet! Please where is the author long time no see the stories?Also public proposal She-it he's game! I hope MarshAlien is in good standing health wise? Fantastic story! Love you all! GREG OH 100 % OF READING ENJOYMENT BYE.

Lovely story, but...

I like the story, but is not ended, needs a sequel, and the readers are several years waiting for that.
5* for you, but we are still waiting for more of this tale.

Kneeling?

Kneeling to propose in public is only done in soap operas. Except for that proposal everything of this story was magically written. Loved it.

Still absolutely Superb!

I already wrote a long, effusive comment (it's on page four of the comments if you're curious), but as I re-read this for maybe the fifth time, I found myself wanting to write another long comment about how much I enjoyed this.

I won't.

Suffice it to say that it hasn't faded in multiple re-readings, and is indeed just as much fun as the original reading. Thanks again.

To 10/04/16 Anon

I never knew my life was a soap opera... never even saw the cameras when i kneeled 19 years ago to propose to my now wife

Loved It!

Sweet and beautifully written; a splendid and wonderful romantic story! :-)

Awesome every time I read it!

I reread this story every time I need cheering up. Fortunately that's not often, but it does the trick every time. Thanks so much for this story and all of your others as well. Please keep writing and posting here at Lit.

My second reading and even I find it a charming story

Every time I read it I like and makes me smile better.
Sorry for not being able to give 5*
I apologize for my English (yet), is not my native language.

One of my all time favorites read and re-read several times

My ONLY negative is the public proposal. It killed an intimate moment....made it seem a bit cheap to me...forced her hand even if she didn't end up feeling that way...I have public proposals that did work, but this one did not.

left out word

SEEN public proposals on video...

A great story! 5 Stars

I read this story about twice a year and it is still a great read! Keep them coming!
Cajun in Baton Rouge!D519

It's sweet and made me smile, though it ends pretty abruptly, feels more like it was cut off mid-paragraph rather than finished.

Loved it...loved it...loved it!

Been meaning to read this one forever...sure glad I did...wish I had done it before now!

MAGNIFICENT

Magnificent, simply magnificent. Too bad the story rating only goes to 5 stars. This is *easily* worth 10+ stars!

Yup!

Sappy, sentimental, soppy, slick and sickeningly good!

Geeat Romance Story

Wonderful- thanks for a nice, light romance.

Great ....

(sorry for the typo)

Ah, now here's a good One Shot!

Having had just read through your, shall was say... Less favorable piece on writers and their editors, this was both refreshing and delightful. A short, but maybe just tad bit too short, story with excellent plot and a well developed cast of characters, each with their own pasts and past selves. And what a title! Deceptive, but very fitting. I love it.
Your slow-ish reveal of the girls' plan was perfectly timed, but your ending was a bit confusing. I was eventually able to piece it together, but it was... How to put it... Less carefully laid out then the rest of the submission. It felt like you wanted to be done writing it and so hurried to the punch line. I loved the idea behind your finisher, but the delivery needs a bit of work, I think.
Anyhow, you did a wonderful job and certainly made up in my mind for the story listed right above this. I know I should say what the name of it is, but I don't want to get it wrong and I'm doing all of this on a mobile that hates copying text and loves refreshing web pages. So I'm not gonna risk it.
See you in the comments of your next story, Marsh!

- The Four-Eyed Vampire

@ TheFourEyedVampire

When you start writing your own stories and submit them to the mercy of over critical dickheads who are just like you, then, and only then do you have the right to criticize anyone else's work. Until that time comes, "Shut the Fuck Up, You Asshole!"

Second Read-through

I first read this some time ago - long enough that when I found it again I didn't remember it until I was half-way through it (again). I was going to "five-star" it - couldn't - I'd done it the first time! :) OK - I'm a fool for a good sappy romance and happy endings. In this story I got all of those, and told well, too. Thank-you for a delightful read - again. :)

sweet and well designed

This is an extremely sweet and romantic story with all the traits of like a good hallmark movie except it was even better and had more thought put into it (I thought).

You see the characters go through some transformations, the setting is still fantastically romantic in it's depiction, like any good story like this is, but you can still see the real brutal world peaking though but not disturbing the story. Very well done, I've seen better but I'm definitely not criticizing.

I don't know why but I adored the love scene. (Even though I half expected it) it was so sweet that when she realized who he was she dropped all prevaricating and stalling and immediately went to seducing him in her sweet, timid yet direct manner. Very cute!

Like many stories, especially short stories and doubly so for stories on here, the ending was good, very good in fact but in punctuating the ending I felt the reader was left hangin' a bit. I believe the true solution and compromise for these situations, rather than a requested sequel or a lengthened edit, is often an epilogue. You know, show us it's a happily every after like we all want and believe it will be.

Thanks again, and great story. Keep Writing! Where ever you may be.
D

The sands of time change little.

I've read this story about a dozen times over the last decade; it always lifts my spirits.

SENTIMENTAL TURD

Unfortunately I'm talking about myself. This is a sweet story of love rediscovered. In fact it's almost saccharine sweet, everybody but the bitch sister is a wonderful, thoughtful, caring individual with great integrity.
Alright, lets get back to burning bitches!!!

Cindergirl next door

And now for the breakdown. Never gonna give you up, Never gonna give, Never gonna give up Jenny!
A new spin on Cinderella, I liked this story.
5 stars!

I have to agree with that Cinder commenter

Everything there the only change is the mother is good. The sister is a evil gold digger. His lady friends were like fairy godmothers the dress and hair. The were her friends from her past.
A new Cinderella-:Cindergirl next door. I got it "Never gonna give you up. by Envogue". How was that for a break down.

Such sweet people!

Thanks for introducing me!

I love this story and read it several times

But I have always been troubled by the ending. Unless you absolutely know the answer a public proposal should NEVER be made. It forces a yes answer and the intended might still be a bit unsure. If I were a woman I would say I'll think about it even if the answer was easily a yes. It's EXTREMELY rude to force a yes answer when the proposal should be a private very tender moment. I have seen some very nice public proposals that were well planned and fun such as a flash dance for the intended, but the answer was basically already discussed just the asking left to do...That made the proposal special. There have been public proposals that got a NO answer just as the ASSHOLE deserved.

Going fishi?

Great story. But no fishing.