retirement home for plot bunnies

[PennyThompson]

I started writing this story about a married career woman turning in to dominatrix and taking it up as a full time profession. Somewhere midway I realized I just don't have the required spices in my repertoire yet

Maybe you just need some field research to achieve the needed verisimilitude

 

[sinfantasy]

Maybe you just need some field research to achieve the needed verisimilitude

Oh, if only 'field research' for this genre came with a safe word and a good alibi! I'm pretty sure my significant other wouldn't buy "I fell down a rabbit hole into the Red Queen's dungeon and, uh, learned some valuable life lessons."

 

[kellyt1994]

I assume everyone has seen Kingpin with Bill Murray and Woody Harrelson? Big Ern's charity for fatherless families is just begging for a Lit treatment.

"Sometimes when I wake up in the morning Mr. McCracken is already there."

 

[Kasumi_Lee]

Here's an incest-themed plot bunny: two married sisters whose husbands are away meet up and bring their 18-year-old sons along. They swap sons and have a four-way in which their nephews fuck their aunts in the double bed. The first two participants to cum have to change the sheets while the other two relax.

 

[TheLobster]

He could know either how fast he was going but not where he was?

You’re mixing him up with that Albuquerque drug dealer.

 

[TarnishedPenny]

Very, very common trope. Has at least dozen realizations on Lit alone. Doesn't mean it shouldn't be again, of course


I can see it work if the piece maintains an eerie atmosphere of detachment from reality all throughout, such that it blurs the boundaries between the MC's mind and what's outside of it (and inside his paradise bunker).

One problem I see there is the implausibility of the fact that none of his harem women rebel and force The Portal open. They'd have to be unrealistically submissive, drugged, mind-controlled, etc., or perhaps a figment of his own deranged imagination. It could also be left ambiguous, of course, all the way until the end. Anything could work, I think; it just depends on the story's overall mood.

The alternative would be to make it all unambiguously real and give the women some personality that creates interpersonal conflict. Some might want to stay, others are brave / curious / crazy and want to risk opening the bunker. This would shift the focus away from the MCs paranoia, though, and might be too much of a departure from your original premise.

Agreed on just about all of that, which is one reason (many reasons?) this has remained in the bunny hutch. Certainly the 'guests' would have been aware that the world was going to hell in a macrame'd handbag and the door would have been shut on news of (insert major horrors here) breaking out, so it wouldn't have to have been forced on them. In one sense.

I just don't think I'm up to choreographing the multiple interpersonal conflicts (and there would be more than just one).

 

[TarnishedPenny]

Two words: cult.

Now I realize that that is only one word, but it's so perfect of an idea that we could just say it twice. This dude has a cult following of women. He is outspoken in his end of days beliefs and that has attracted others. He scoops the women from the followers and they willingly bunk with him equally convinced that the end is nigh.

Nice twist! That makes it even somewhat plausible.

 

[TarnishedPenny]

None of mine are ready for retirement. So they say. But some of them are falling down and probably fit for assisted living.

Well, your one with the farm boy flirting with 'Central' on his crank phone miiight be just a bit dated, yes.