September 11 Story - Yes or No?

[RetroFan]

This year obviously marks 20 years since September 11 2001 (hard to believe) and I was thinking about writing a story that centres around the disaster. I've used the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in other stories as a landmark and to set the story in the past and alluded to the disaster in other works, but never written a story about that infamous day.

What would your thoughts be if you saw a 911 story, provided it was written respectfully? An acceptable idea for a story, or bad taste?

 

[gunhilltrain]

There doesn't seem to be a reason that you couldn't do it. I'd be curious how you would work a sexual angle into it. Sure, like any other day, people had sex anyway.

I would guess that you'd have to set the story pretty close to the scene. Could there maybe be a first-responder theme to it? (Not that they'd actually be fooling around at the location.) Or could there maybe be a couple having a tryst in the Vista Hotel just as the event happens? The hotel was crushed but I think many of the occupants survived.

You have to decide whether you want a single POV or whether you want to depict the reactions of a number of people.

Just my first impressions.

 

[JGittes]

There was a restaurant at the top of one of the towers called Windows on the World, I'd eaten there once in 1978 or 1979. Many of kitchen crew were there the morning of 9/11 starting the day's usual food preparation and they, of course, died in the subsequent collapse.

The story I've been thinking of for several years now is based around the spectacular wine cellar they had and the sober realization after the impacts, they knew they didn't have all that long to live. Backstories would be the resisted romances that could now reach fullfillment if only for a short time. The short finale would be opening some of the great wines to accompany whatever they could throw together for a final meal before the collapse.

Just a thought.

 

[Handley_Page]

The story was told of a man who worked in one of the Towers, who took a call from his wife on his mobile phone.
"Where are you ?" she screamed.
"At work", he replied. He rolled off his latest amour.
"You'd better put the TV on then. . ." she said "And get a lawyer. . . ."

 

[TadOverdon]

The story I've been thinking of for several years now is based around the spectacular wine cellar they had and the sober realization after the impacts, they knew they didn't have all that long to live. Backstories would be the resisted romances that could now reach fullfillment if only for a short time. The short finale would be opening some of the great wines to accompany whatever they could throw together for a final meal before the collapse.

The final communication with the assistant to the general manager of Windows on The World occurred just over twenty minutes after the aircraft collided with the tower. Christine Olender reported that they were running out of air.

 

[JGittes]

The final communication with the assistant to the general manager of Windows on The World occurred just over twenty minutes after the aircraft collided with the tower. Christine Olender reported that they were running out of air.

There is an infamous photo called 'Falling Man' I believe. It is thought to be the head chef of Windows on the World. I can't imagine the conditions that would make jumping over 100 stories preferable to trying to stay and survive.

Most of our stories have as little relationship to reality as trying to create a magical, literary oasis in the midst of the hell of that morning.

 

[_Lynn_]

This year obviously marks 20 years since September 11 2001 (hard to believe) and I was thinking about writing a story that centres around the disaster. I've used the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in other stories as a landmark and to set the story in the past and alluded to the disaster in other works, but never written a story about that infamous day.

What would your thoughts be if you saw a 911 story, provided it was written respectfully? An acceptable idea for a story, or bad taste?

It could go into the non-erotic or romance categories to get past the sex angle. I went there over Thanksgiving week that year. Although I won't go into what did or didn't happen in the hotel suite, I will say I talked to many people who were in the city just to get a glimpse of the towers.

 

[HeyAll]

I think these kinds of stories work well in Romance, perhaps a near death experience causes the characters to reaffirm their love.

 

[gunhilltrain]

There is an infamous photo called 'Falling Man' I believe. It is thought to be the head chef of Windows on the World. I can't imagine the conditions that would make jumping over 100 stories preferable to trying to stay and survive.

Most of our stories have as little relationship to reality as trying to create a magical, literary oasis in the midst of the hell of that morning.

Burning to death is a horrible way to die. He may or may not have had a choice. Hitting the ground from that height is instant death. You're gone before the pain can register, perhaps.

I'm reminded of the Triangle factory fire in 1911 when many people jumped eight or nine stories to avoid the flames. They really had to do it. Some of them were already burning as they jumped. The building is still there on Washington Place and it has a plaque on it mentioning the disaster. NYU owns it now.

 

[RetroFan]

Thanks for the replies, I was always going to be respectful in addressing the disaster.

My story plan was another story in my PTA Queen & Teen Rebel series, set 13 years after the originals where the lead female character Allison thinks her husband Dennis - a very strange man with some weird obsessions - has been killed at the WTC where he works in the North Tower. As it turns out Dennis did die on 11th September 2001, but at the time the planes hit he was already dead several hours, dying of a heart attack on Long Island while pursuing his peculiar penchants and obviously never making it to work. In the aftermath, Allison is reunited with Jenna - a girl with whom she had an affair many years earlier - and whose own father had died in the 1993 WTC bombing while there for a conference.

 

[gunhilltrain]

I've written a story about a real-life train wreck in New Jersey in 1958, partially from the POV of one of the passengers and partially from the POV of some of his colleagues at his job. I put it in Non-erotic because there was no sex in it at all. It was generally well-received.

The fatalities were 48, which seems trivial compared to 9/11. But if you are killed, I guess it doesn't really matter if you are the only victim or one of thousands.

 

[RetroFan]

I've written a story about a real-life train wreck in New Jersey in 1958, partially from the POV of one of the passengers and partially from the POV of some of his colleagues at his job. I put it in Non-erotic because there was no sex in it at all. It was generally well-received.

The fatalities were 48, which seems trivial compared to 9/11. But if you are killed, I guess it doesn't really matter if you are the only victim or one of thousands.

That sounds like an interesting story, what was the name of the story so I can read it please?

I've written a story about when Cyclone Tracy destroyed the Australian city of Darwin at Christmas 1974, and have other stories written that involve well-known historical events, such as the Moon landing in 1969 and the 1984 Miners' Strike in Britain.

 

[gunhilltrain]

That sounds like an interesting story, what was the name of the story so I can read it please?

I've written a story about when Cyclone Tracy destroyed the Australian city of Darwin at Christmas 1974, and have other stories written that involve well-known historical events, such as the Moon landing in 1969 and the 1984 Miners' Strike in Britain.

Sure, here is the link: http://classic.literotica.com/s/the-bridge-at-newark-bay

The link should work because I just tried it.

 

[Abbafan]

This year obviously marks 20 years since September 11 2001 (hard to believe) and I was thinking about writing a story that centres around the disaster. I've used the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in other stories as a landmark and to set the story in the past and alluded to the disaster in other works, but never written a story about that infamous day.

What would your thoughts be if you saw a 911 story, provided it was written respectfully? An acceptable idea for a story, or bad taste?

Definitely comes down to the execution. A more serious, romantic story would probably be fine. I think you could get away with making it more about sexy times if you do it right. Treat the events seriously, respectfully. Say your characters are looking for a way to raise each others spirits after the attack, something like that. There's always some people on the lookout for some reason to get offended, but I think most would be OK with it if done respectfully.