Let's Get Out Of Here, Baby [TCD2018]

a reply to: DexterRiley

Thanks for reading Dex! I'm thrilled that folks are enjoying it!

These comparisons - Hitchcock, PKD - really make me feel like I'm onto something. Such a great feeling sharing something that I'm passionate about, like writing, and getting positive feedback.

a reply to: DictionaryOfExcuses

The immense difference between your words and DB's is that no Gunthers were harmed in the fiction.

a reply to: auroraaus

I'm glad you pointed that out.

Everyone, rightly, has personal lines that, hell or high water, they will not cross.

"Gunther" is the DMZ of my storytelling Vietnam.

a reply to: DictionaryOfExcuses

A well written sick and twisted tale.. S&F

a reply to: 727Sky

Thanks 727.

By happy accident, I just now realized something neat.

My username is Dictionary of Excuses (obv) and the subtitle of my story, Lots of People Do Far Worse, is an excuse. Perhaps I've stumbled on a fresh spring from which to draw inspiration for storytelling.

I'll admit my bias if you admit I might be correct

a reply to: DictionaryOfExcuses

No, now youve pointed it out, I'm seeing some Jungian context.

originally posted by: auroraaus
a reply to: DictionaryOfExcuses

No, now youve pointed it out, I'm seeing some Jungian context.

Symbols and spectres? "Things are not always as they seem"?

I'm having trouble with that one.

Maybe I'm not completely privy to the Gunther joke?

a reply to: DictionaryOfExcuses

No, sort of like a freudan slip but Jungian is non sexual, so subconcious transference of main character in your text and yourself - the excuses thing lol

a reply to: auroraaus

Oh totally. My mind was still on Gunther.

Crazy how the mind works, and where it takes us when we treat it like a river instead of a pond.

a reply to: DictionaryOfExcuses

We really need to form GLO
Gunther Liberation Front

That was the longest I've read in a while. Good plot man!

a reply to: DictionaryOfExcuses

Very very well done, DOE!!!!

Love your imagery and also enjoyed the theme also. Very chilling ending.

#. Lots of people write far, far worse #.

originally posted by: zosimov
a reply to: DictionaryOfExcuses

#. Lots of people write far, far worse #.

I see what you did there.

Thanks for reading Z, glad you like it!

lol I just read it again and caught all these little mistakes: "That's all not I was relieved about", etc.

Haste: the real killer

ETA - Perhaps dyslexia in a dish in.

a reply to: DictionaryOfExcuses

Crikey! That guy was one sick puppy.

Awesome story.

kind regards,

bally

a reply to: bally001

Thanks for reading Bally!

I sat down the other night (morning, heh) at maybe 1:30a and didn't stop writing until I was done at about 11:30a. Believe it or not, it takes a lot out of me, not only the marathon writing session itself, but "channeling" all these dark thoughts and stringing them together...having to go through the thought process of "how could it get worse?"

By the time I'm finished with a yarn like this, I'm ready for some ice cream and cartoons.

a reply to: DictionaryOfExcuses

i so get you. i am loaded with a vague story for this section for days now. can't just sit down and face to do it. i've been walking the dog already three times in a couple of days, i even cleaned the windows.

ps: loved your contribution! i was mesmerized

a reply to: DictionaryOfExcuses


You have some Boston roots?

Freaked me out! Quite the imagination. Well done!

originally posted by: KTemplar
a reply to: DictionaryOfExcuses
You have some Boston roots?

I studied there for several years in my twenties. You?

a reply to: DictionaryOfExcuses


Boston born