Imagine the following:
You log into Literotica and check out the new stories in "Erotic Couplings". One of the new stories catches your eye, and you open it. The story is about a good-looking, happily married couple aged 40 named John and Jessica, who have known each other since childhood and dated through high school and college. They now have great careers, three kids, a nice house with a nice garden and a dog and cat; and despite being married for many years now none of the heat of their sex life has died down.
The story is extremely well-written and the characters are engaging and interesting. The romance gets you in without being sappy, and the back stories of the characters to when they were younger (for example when they got married and went on their honeymoon) are excellent. John and Jessica come to life in your mind's eye, and the sex scenes are brilliant. The couple play strip poker with each other; join the 'mile high club' when flying to a vacation in another state; John returns home one evening to find Jessica dressed in early 1990s clothes she wore when she was 18/19 promising a hot night in the bedroom; and when attending a 'look how much more money we have than you' type of house-warming party thrown by pretentious friends, John and Jessica sneak into one of the bedrooms for some 'afternoon delight'.
The story runs for 8 pages, a little longer than you are used to reading, but is so good you enjoy every single word of it and as you click on Page 8 to read the conclusion, your heart races with anticipation, and you have no doubt you will give it 5 stars and make it a favorite.
And then it happens. You find out that the events portrayed so well in the story didn't actually happen. John does exist, but he does not go home to his wonderful wife and family, his nice house in the suburbs with the cat and dog. None of these exist, and John goes home alone to his small apartment from his boring, dead-end office job. Jessica did exist, and she and John were indeed high school sweethearts who commenced college together, but she has been gone 20 years now, becoming sick with cancer while at college and dying at a young age. Jessica's only existence now is in photographs, home videos and memories, including those of John, who never got over her death and keeps a room as a shrine to his late girlfriend. He goes in there every evening to fantasize about what things might have been like had Jessica lived and they had married like they planned, these fantasies being the events portrayed in the story.
On one level, this story is infinitely better than some deluded fantasy written in pidgin English with no dialogue that stretches to a massive 752 words; yet at the same time it is a much bigger disappointment. In some genres such as crime fiction a twist is very good - how many times have you read or watched a murder mystery and when the murderer is revealed you say, "He seemed like a really nice guy," - but really huge plot twists, such as the dreaded 'it was all a dream' leave me cold.
What do you think of works of fiction that have these huge twists?
You log into Literotica and check out the new stories in "Erotic Couplings". One of the new stories catches your eye, and you open it. The story is about a good-looking, happily married couple aged 40 named John and Jessica, who have known each other since childhood and dated through high school and college. They now have great careers, three kids, a nice house with a nice garden and a dog and cat; and despite being married for many years now none of the heat of their sex life has died down.
The story is extremely well-written and the characters are engaging and interesting. The romance gets you in without being sappy, and the back stories of the characters to when they were younger (for example when they got married and went on their honeymoon) are excellent. John and Jessica come to life in your mind's eye, and the sex scenes are brilliant. The couple play strip poker with each other; join the 'mile high club' when flying to a vacation in another state; John returns home one evening to find Jessica dressed in early 1990s clothes she wore when she was 18/19 promising a hot night in the bedroom; and when attending a 'look how much more money we have than you' type of house-warming party thrown by pretentious friends, John and Jessica sneak into one of the bedrooms for some 'afternoon delight'.
The story runs for 8 pages, a little longer than you are used to reading, but is so good you enjoy every single word of it and as you click on Page 8 to read the conclusion, your heart races with anticipation, and you have no doubt you will give it 5 stars and make it a favorite.
And then it happens. You find out that the events portrayed so well in the story didn't actually happen. John does exist, but he does not go home to his wonderful wife and family, his nice house in the suburbs with the cat and dog. None of these exist, and John goes home alone to his small apartment from his boring, dead-end office job. Jessica did exist, and she and John were indeed high school sweethearts who commenced college together, but she has been gone 20 years now, becoming sick with cancer while at college and dying at a young age. Jessica's only existence now is in photographs, home videos and memories, including those of John, who never got over her death and keeps a room as a shrine to his late girlfriend. He goes in there every evening to fantasize about what things might have been like had Jessica lived and they had married like they planned, these fantasies being the events portrayed in the story.
On one level, this story is infinitely better than some deluded fantasy written in pidgin English with no dialogue that stretches to a massive 752 words; yet at the same time it is a much bigger disappointment. In some genres such as crime fiction a twist is very good - how many times have you read or watched a murder mystery and when the murderer is revealed you say, "He seemed like a really nice guy," - but really huge plot twists, such as the dreaded 'it was all a dream' leave me cold.
What do you think of works of fiction that have these huge twists?
from the good little witch.
