The ones we leave behind

[SamanthaBehgs]

I honestly am so new, I don't think anyone would even notice (and I definitely don't think my readers are invested enough in anything I do to notice either).

And I can't imagine my husband, the only IRL person who knows my login credentials and only one of two who knows I write, would log in to give an update. We have kids, he'd have much higher priorities and this would just never cross his mind (he likes y'all, even said he didn't expect such a supportive group of people to be on the Lit forums, he just wouldn't think of it if the time came).

But, like I said, I don't really expect anyone to notice either, so I think we're solid there? (And no, I'm also not looking for people to assure me that they'd notice. I'm not upset or insulted, just realistic. I've been on here 3 months - it's reasonable).

 

[Z_TheWriter]

I honestly am so new, I don't think anyone would even notice

Who would I jump in puddles with?

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

No one will know. Possibly for days, maybe longer as the mail piles up.

There is no one to leave behind.

 

[Trionyx]

Why is it always a bus?

 

[PennyThompson]

Why is it always a bus?

Because our car-centric culture has destroyed the streetcar/tram, which is by far the superior public transit vehicle to be run over by

 

[SamanthaBehgs]

Who would I jump in puddles with?

I'd have to haunt you just for that. Can ghosts jump in puddles?

 

[caleb35]

No mechanism for me. When I'm gone, I'm gone

 

[Writer61]

Why is it always a bus?

Because omnibuses are everywhere, the full name is a clue.

 

[sirhugs]

I am not sure how widely I will be missed but as my situation is almost day to day or week to week I have put plans in place with two online friends that if I vanish and do not DM them, they will check obits for my real name.
Having said that I just got news that the tumor is shrinking so you may be stuck with me for a while.

 

[Writer61]

Because our car-centric culture has destroyed the streetcar/tram, which is by far the superior public transit vehicle to be run over by

Meanwhile, in Europe, trams never completely went away and they are on the rise. They always coexist with buses.

Flashback: helping a blind man avoid an oncoming tram near Rotterdam Central station.

 

[SamanthaBehgs]

I am not sure how widely I will be missed but as my situation is almost day to day or week to week I have put plans in place with two online friends that if I vanish and do not DM them, they will check obits for my real name.
Having said that I just got news that the tumor is shrinking so you may be stuck with me for a while.

I'd miss you. So check off at least one. Would those online friends let us folks at Lit know?

 

[Statius]

I would be the one to just disappear, probably without something having to happen. I would let at least 1 friend here know, but more than that? Doubtful.

 

[NuclearFairy]

Well, if I ever got bored of lit, I'd tell a handful of people in pms and then just disappear.

However, if something were to happen to me... While both my SO and my roommate know that I write here and that I hang out on the forums here... My roommate is nigh on computer illiterate and so probably couldn't navigate the site even if she thought to come tell you guys. And my SO would very likely have other things on his mind. Which is assuming that we weren't in a horrible car crash that took all three of our lives.

I should probably go have some morbid talks with him...

I honestly am so new, I don't think anyone would even notice (and I definitely don't think my readers are invested enough in anything I do to notice either).

But I want to grow up to be just like you! =P Yes I know we're probably around the same age.

I am not sure how widely I will be missed but as my situation is almost day to day or week to week I have put plans in place with two online friends that if I vanish and do not DM them, they will check obits for my real name.
Having said that I just got news that the tumor is shrinking so you may be stuck with me for a while.

I may not have talked with you directly very much, but I do enjoy seeing you about and I think you're the best mod the Story Idea forum could have.

 

[sirhugs]

I'd miss you. So check off at least one. Would those online friends let us folks at Lit know?

Counting on them

 

[iwatchus]

I think I'm a lot more likely to lose interest and walk away than I am to die any time soon, and as of right now I don't think I would do that silently

But if I were to get hit by a bus or something, I don't think anyone here would ever know. Honestly connecting this part of my life to the rest of my life is a source of anxiety, even when it comes to the people here that I love very much.

I would just fade away and that would be that, and if occasionally someone thought "Whatever happened to that annoying girl who thought she was funny," my ghost would be happy

(I had to teach a class mid-posting, so this is a bit delayed)

It makes me sad that people have to live parallel lives. I’m not criticizing; I understand at least some of the myriad of valid reasons. It’s just an unfortunate reality of this world.

All of you, yes even you @AwkwardlySet, would be missed here.

I'm fortunate that my household all knows about my writing and knows about some of you from my IRL conversations. My mother knows I write, but even in her nineties, it seems she knows enough not to ask what I write if I'm not volunteering.

A request for many of you who assume we won't care or you won't be missed. We do and you will be. Can you leave a note saying there is an on-line community you belong to? just a short? Find a safe e-mail address for someone on AH that can be notified. Most of us have gmail accounts for the site. Just leave a note in your papers. If family knows you write anything (but not what), you can say it's part of your writing community.

Thank you.

 

[Candy_Kane54]

I have no one to let you know, but since I post here every day, if I go more than a week without a post, you can assume I've kicked the bucket.

 

[lovecraft68]

My wife would post something here.

If by chance she passed before me then there will be no one to report here of my demise.

 

[KittyOfSteele]

I wrote out instructions in my journal last year, not out of fear of death (I'm in my 30s), but out of fear of being taken into custody and sent straight to one of the two prisons that were repurposed as re-education centers or concentration camps after shit hit the fan in quite a spectacular way. In the communities I frequent the most I also let people know that if I suddenly go off for more than 48 hours, that means I've been taken.

Whether this is paranoia or actual fear is beyond me. Someone I know was being hunted down since the day shit hit the fan, and got arrested like this summer, or at the end of the spring; almost one year after the events. They finally narrowed them down, broke into their apartment, and dragged them out in cuffs. As usual: no trial, no due process, just straight to a bus destined to a concentration camp. I don't exaggerate when I call my location a Real Life Neon Dystopia.

 

[Djmac1031]

I come and go around here so often I think it'd probably take awhile for anyone to notice i was gone.

I doubt too many would care, other than to wonder why I haven't shown up to derail their thread with a stupid joke

 

[Belegon]

I don't have anything set up, but there are a couple of people who might pop in and say something... a real Life ex and I met here in the AH and she might pop in and let some people know. Then again, she might not think to come here and might just contact a lot of the "old gang" directly. We lost a few people rather suddenly in the early 2000s that caused a bit of fuss, but the community here doesn't seem as tight now as it was then. At the time, it seemed we had a group that was very much unusual in how much we knew and cared about each other "off the page." I don't know how much that exists anymore, since if it is really still here I'm on the outside looking in.

The one that seemed to hit the hardest on the AH in general was when Colly ( Colleen Thomas) passed. She was very active and friendly in the AH and was considered by most of us to pretty much be the preeminent "Lesbian sex" writer on Lit at the time.Her sudeen passing stirred up quite a lot of feelings and inquiries.

 

[NuclearFairy]

I come and go around here so often I think it'd probably take awhile for anyone to notice i was gone.

I doubt too many would care, other than to wonder why I haven't shown up to derail their thread with a stupid joke

O.O You're right, how ever would we live without your thread derailment?

More seriously though, your thread derailments are fun, and you've always been very nice and helpful. I'm sure you'd be missed for more than just that.

 

[Zootonius]

I don't want to go in the cart!
https://media1.tenor.com/m/N_8p8kIvWxAAAAAC/alive-dead.gif

 

[R0xyfoxy]

Good thing you had this space to share that and pour all that out. Dont hold back and say what you have to say. Some people just pretend to be strong and dont say anything. What they do is crying in silence because no body cares or they have pretend for too long that will shatter their image of tough guy/girl

 

[Rob_Royale]

Sort of. My wife knows to inform my publisher, who would probably mention it to a fellow writer who is active here on the AH.

 

[SimonDoom]

There will be no one to report my passing. I plan to hang around here as a mischievous ghost, playing tricks and posting spooky emojis. People will blame me for their publishing delays. "My story is stuck pending again. Damn that Simon."