I figured that if @formeruser12 thinks there are too few contributions, I would submit this liitle one:
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I think that says a lot about you, Bob, Iâm glad you shared it.
I love your style of writing. Itâs descriptive and animated without being unnecessarily complex. I just like that clear style, youâre adept at using the right words for the right situation, and itâs obvious you have many under your belt, you just choose to use them judiciously. My brain can handle that.
You obviously met quite a remarkable person there, and I think she thought the same of you.
I did want to know more about the NAAFI though!
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Iâve also read it, and the way the ending reminds me of a Hungarian novelist of the beginning of the last century. But the synapsis is very much resembling⌠a book lost in the myriad of time.
But the scene ends with the man leaving in a carriage on a dusty road, she looking back at the diminished figures left behind through the swirling dust the horses leave. And that to is the last time the protagonist sees the distressed woman, never to be with her again. Iâll hunt for the author, doubt I can find it or the work.
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Thank you, itâs one of many stories that happened to me in the brief time I was a soldier. I am preparing more which all show what a naive boy I still was at the time. That seems to have been something that attracted certain young women.
Thanks, William, I suppose that novels and short stories rework common themes repeatedly because it is part of being human. There is a lot of irony and calamity in the world that makes the stories that we often find compelling.
You just had to mention her being âoverweightâ. I wonder if she writes stories about your unibrow. You also make it sound as if she had no say in the matter. She CHOSE to be with the other guy. It wasnât your choice. You make it sound like the 1850s instead of the 1970s. She chose to have a bit of a flirtation.
It is really odd that you focus on that and not âShe wore loose summer dresses that swirled around her when she walked, hiding her curves but somehow suggesting them at the same time. What people noticed most, though, was her laugh. It rang out bright and unrestrained, and when she came into the foyer, it made heads turn as surely as if someone had called their name.â
Curves can be beautiful, donât you think? She wasnât conventionally beautiful, just as I have never been conventionally attractive. I found her engaging rather than âdesirableâ. And yes, I thought the story made it clear that she was having a fling before getting married, but she got caught up in an emotional indiscretion that she managed to contain.
The thing was, she changed me, even if she never knew.
I read it.
@Natalie, wherever you are, you sent me this, but obviously overlooked that the story begins mentioning a namesake of yours and has nothing to do with Meno and MagsJ.
@MagsJ and @meno41 âs emotional affair has been what, roughly 10 years? Is that brief?
A shame that you ran away so soon.
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Thank you for sharing this Bob.. now hopefully this ridiculous non-event can come to an and.
As you probably can recall.. Iâve been telling both Meno and Ich-yuck (both Natalie?) to get lost/stop following me around trolling me, so, I ask âWhat emotional affair with a made-up/non-existent man?â
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Not coming to an end quite yet.
