Story title suggestions

[LaRascasse]

I'm getting through a new kind of story for me. I essentially wanted it to be a short stroker, but now it looks like a stroker with some parallel plot.

The story is basically a short look into the life of a couple in a bad Brooklyn neighbourhood. The guy is a mid-level thug/enforcer for an unnamed mob boss and his gal is a fiery, temperamental lady of indeterminate profession (cocktail waitress or stripper are possible options). In essence, a quintessential lowlife couple.

The story is a day (or two) in their lives, showing the cycle of their love - fight, fuck, repeat. The idea is to show passionate love which turns violent (dishes thrown, face scratched, biting him etc) but at the end of the day we realize it's just part of their process. That's simply how they love each other... and they really do love each other.

What am I asking for? A possible title. The song that's in my head when I write this is "Kiss With A Fist" and that would be a very apt title had it not already been the name of a song. The title should be catchy and encapsulate both passion and violence. The tag line description I have thought of is "Fight. Fuck. Repeat" so it would help if the title was along these lines too.

Thanks in advance for anybody who comes up with a good idea.

 

[lovecraft68]

Sounds like my first marriage, minus the love

How about something simple

"Tough Love"

Or you could play on the old Nazareth song, "Love Hurts"

 

[RejectReality]

I don't know why you don't just use the title you already have. It's eye-catching, makes you wonder what it's about, and describes the story perfectly. It's never been used on Literotica before, and it's a nod that the song helped inspire the story.

Ditto for the description. The combination of the two are perfect as far as I'm concerned.

 

[LaRascasse]

I don't know why you don't just use the title you already have. It's eye-catching, makes you wonder what it's about, and describes the story perfectly. It's never been used on Literotica before, and it's a nod that the song helped inspire the story.

Ditto for the description. The combination of the two are perfect as far as I'm concerned.

I'll keep that as a last resort. Do readers take kindly to directly lifting a story title from another source?

 

[allamagione]

Sounds like the ultimate "Bad Romance" to me.

Do we already have a few thousand with that title?

 

[RejectReality]

I'll keep that as a last resort. Do readers take kindly to directly lifting a story title from another source?

At this point in time, the odds are that any short combination of words you put together has been used as a title on something before. It's why you hear people talking about new books on television and hear a short title followed by a byline that's almost a paragraph.

I've never seen readers react badly to a title from something else used as the title of a story here. It's even an exercise authors have engaged in here, writing stories based upon songs and using the titles ( I have two versions of "Home by the Sea" by Genesis myself )

 

[Neonurotic]

Sounds like "Kiss With A Fist" is most fitting, others can and will sound cheesy. With just the title alone, readers will want to read it. Those who recognize the title as a song, will read it also out of curiosity to see what you did with the story. Often the same titles are used for movies, songs and books and have nothing to do with each other. The thing with "Kiss With A Fist", the song by Florence and the Machine, your story flows with the meaning of Florence's lyrics.

 

[49greg]

I think you already thought of the title: Fight, Fuck, Repeat.

 

[PennLady]

I'll keep that as a last resort. Do readers take kindly to directly lifting a story title from another source?

I don't think anyone cares. I, for one, have never heard of the song you're referring to, and I'd bet a lot of others haven't either. If you hadn't mentioned it, I'd never know it was also a song. Also, titles can't be copyrighted, I don't think, so you wouldn't have a problem there.

I have used song titles on at least three stories inspired by those songs -- "Silver, Blue & Gold," "Horses in the City," and "Morning Sun." No one cared, and I even put a note at the end of each story noting that the story was inspired by the song.

 

[PennLady]

I think you already thought of the title: Fight, Fuck, Repeat.

Which sounds suspiciously like the the tagline for "Edge of Tomorrow," the latest Tom Cruise movie. "Live. Die. Repeat."

The title of the novel on which it was based, IIRC, was "All You Need is Kill." I thought that was better.

 

[Bramblethorn]

At this point in time, the odds are that any short combination of words you put together has been used as a title on something before.

Pro authors use song titles sometimes. One of my favourites just recently found that he and a friend were both writing novels titled "Invisible Sun" based on the same Police single.

Plenty of duplication just within music, intentional and otherwise. Skimming through my collection I have unrelated pairs of songs titled "The Fall", "Stigmata", "God Only Knows", "Lullaby", "Oh Yeah", "Poison", "Reload", "Reptile", "Shame", and "Who Are You" (neither of them the Who song).

1984/85 had two unrelated #1 singles both titled "The Power of Love".

 

[Bramblethorn]

Which sounds suspiciously like the the tagline for "Edge of Tomorrow," the latest Tom Cruise movie. "Live. Die. Repeat."

Both of them stole it from that timeless classic "Rinse. Lather. Repeat."

 

[NaokoSmith]

I also like Fight, Fuck, Repeat for a title. You could have "Kiss with a fist" for the description.

I don't think there'd be a problem with using the song title though, if that's what you want to do. One of the FAWCs gave a list of songs for people to use as inspiration. People commonly say their story was inspired by a song.

 

[PennLady]

Both of them stole it from that timeless classic "Rinse. Lather. Repeat."

True, but it sounds like his story may have more in common with the movie.