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Old 08-07-2007, 01:12 PM   #1
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What is this? Find out..

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Wrote this after a few drinks. Probably belongs in File 13 but I'm going to post it here anyway just for fun. I don't even think its can qualify for being a story but I'll let you guys tear it to shreds and as a result I shall lose all credibility as a writer on this forum

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The following text contains sexual references, profanity and potentially distasteful comments. This piece is intended for a mature audience of 18 years or over. Thank you.

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The most common term for it is a queef, there are however, plenty more. A personal favourite is the muff guff. This phenomonen is basically an involuntary expulsion of trapped air from the vagina which can happen either during or after intercourse. A frump. Some women have even suffered the embaressment of letting one rip whilst practising yoga postures. A frontal bottom-burp. Prehaps, to either the displeasure or enjoyment of the man, the worst is when he's just finished doing his business. Spilled his beans, so to speak. This happened during the break-up of a five year relationship which I had been actively participating in. We'd just finished making love, probably for the last time when she says, "You know this has to end." It had been a mutual understanding for the past few months that we were going to split and so, naked together, we kiss softly and hold each other. Just then, in the appropriate tranquility of our last little cuddle, it happened and the moment was gone. The fanny fart.

Vodka and coke, no ice, no lemon please.

Breaking up, in most cases, doesn't happen because the man leaves to join the army or because the woman falls for her version of DiCaprio. It doesn't happen under a Paris sky or a in New York brasserie. It happens because of arguments over whether or not to get own-brand tomato soup or the expensive stuff. It happens because the woman finds her man snooping through her sister's knicker-drawer. It happens on the train, the fruit and veg isle, nightclubs or on a package holiday in Portugal. In my case it happened because I was given an ultimatum, the old classic.
"You either quit the booze or I'm gone." Needless to say, she is now gone and I very am drunk much.

I always remember a conversation I had with a stranger down at my local bar a few years back. The place was empty, as it usually was, with the exception of me and this stranger. I'll be honest and say the place was a shithole but it was always quiet and the drinks were cheap. More importantly though was that they had a Pacman machine, and even if it becomes the end product of my existence, my only skill, my life's work, I had developed a system which would allow me to play Pacman for sixteen hours straight, from opening to closing time, using just one quarter. The stranger turned to me after fifteen minutes of silence and told me that he could sleep with any woman he wanted. I smile and say "Hey, thats quite a feat. How'd you manage that then?" and he replies, prehaps a little too casually,
"I'm a rapist.

J and B, dash, on the rocks. Keep the change.

I've developed a routine for getting laid. I guide her through the living room and gesture to the sofa in front of a large plasma screen playing Who Wants To Be A Millionaire. This particular episode, I know from heart. I'd recorded it a few months before on to DVD, so not to diminish the quality (which as a result would ruin the illusion.) My date for the night would sit directly infront of the TV while I call out each answer from the kitchen.
The Louvre.
Jerry Lee Lewis.
She turns her head to nod and smile approvingly. From that indication, I know i'm in but for the hell of it I keep going.
Yves St Laurent.
I even go as far as dumbing it down a touch. "Oh, I can never remember, was it Sampras or Agassi?" I ask myself aloud, although I've answered this question at least five times before.
"Sampras, sure, of course".
I usually try and time this answer while I pour her a $2.95 dry, white wine from a $49.95 bottle.

I always take them to the same Italian restaurant and the occasionally the same French restaurant if I need two dates to bag a particular girl. I spent one Thursday afternoon learning certain Italian and French phrases for these particular occassions. At Azzara's I always order the same dish, despite not actually enjoying it all that much. It's basically spinach, veal and chicken crepes covered in a tomato and cheese sauce.
"Vorrei i Cannelloni alla Romana e un vero di vino bianco, per piacere." I always look forward to this sentence on every date, knowing that halfway through saying it the woman in front of me will raise her eyebrows and smile in approval. This did backfire a few months back when I went through the usual process only to find that the bitch had majored in Italian and started spouting the stuff fluently at me. As i'm sure you can imagine I was totally stumped and momentarily trapped in a mental concoction of fear, shame and a self-realisation of stupidity. In a split second I concluded that the only escape route was to fake a heart-attack. Porca puttano.

Sambuca, double, straight.

Back at the apartment I take her coat but completely miss the hanger.

Tequila, straight. No, I don't want the fucking salt and lemon.

She asks me something about the antique clock on my fireplace. I don't quite catch it. I fall back onto the couch, landing on the remote. As a result the DVD starts back up displaying the end credits to Who Wants To Be A Millionaire. I can't move. When the credits eventually finish, and after the girl has taken all the money from my wallet, the screen jitters and switches to a home-made masterbation video of my flat-mate massaging his balls inside a pair of pink and black, nylon panties.
"You dirty fucker," she snarls as she slips my watch from my wrist. I hear the door slam and I break into hysterical laughter.

Brandy, straight. One for the road.

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Old 08-07-2007, 01:46 PM   #2
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simply awesome.
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Old 08-07-2007, 06:17 PM   #3
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Are you serious? It wasn't even that well written!
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This was VERY well written.

Very, very good.

Yes, it is a story, albeit a short one, which is what you intended, right? There's a beginning, middle, and end.

The only issue I had was that I was waiting for the rapist to be a part of this. After you introduced him I somehow thought everything you said was related to him because I think it was setup like that. The technique of ordering drinks was a nice touch but after the guy introduced himself as a rapist, I thought that was why you really needed a drink. If you show a gun in the first scene, it should fire before the last scene. Maybe add a transition from him to your narrative so that we know he is out of the story.
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Old 08-07-2007, 07:39 PM   #5
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Are you serious? It wasn't even that well written!
I knew women would hate this


To Astralis;

Appreciate the kind words. The rapist was included, not just for the joke, but as a transition from the narrators break-up into him 'playing the field'. Now I've read what you said I do tend to agree with you and prehaps it would be fun to include him later on in the story.

The drink orders are there to illustrate the narrator getting more drunk as he tells the story.

I think a lot of people will have a problem with the opening paragraph
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I enjoyed that.
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Thanks Johnny To be honest I don't really like the piece as a whole. It's rushed and unfocused. I'm actually going to completly re-write the story using the following synopsis:

Clifford never thought it would happen, but it did. The business plan which he proposed and set-up has been taken over by four of his so-called friends, and he's been cut out of the equation. To extract revenge Clifford takes his pay-off money and creates his own project:

Sleeping with and video-taping each of his former collegue's wives.
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Unique story idea, sir. Really like your re-write synopsis
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Appreciate that sir. I will keep you informed when it's finished
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I liked it because it seemed spontaneous -- not overworked. Fun to read. It's hard to pull of something like the drink orders thing, without being to cute. I got it and it was funny.
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I knew women would hate this
You've got that wrong. This was great! What a great hook, a queef. Lol. Wonderful. How many times has that happened at the most inappropriate time, right? Really enjoyed this. Want to read more like it. I'm sure there are few places you could clean it up, but all in all, thanks for writing it so I could have the pleasure of reading it.
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Clifford never thought it would happen, but it did. The business plan which he proposed and set-up has been taken over by four of his so-called friends, and he's been cut out of the equation. To extract revenge Clifford takes his pay-off money and creates his own project:

Sleeping with and video-taping each of his former collegue's wives.
Oh, please write this and make it as blunt/funny as I hope it will be. Well Done again.
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Wow...umm...I dunno...what to say about that. It was well-written, that's for sure. I'm not a big fan of the subject of a rapist, but the perspective you told it from was definitely fresh. I got kind of confused near the end when you said the girl was taking his money and his watch. It also would have been nicer if you had shown a time when his plan worked. Other minor corrections could be made, but I don't think you care too much about this piece, it being the child of drunkeness.
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A little wordy in places, a bit on the edgy side, and I'm sure he fell on the couch at the end (not the coach,) but I liked it.

The characters and topics were interesting, it was intelligent, and it keeps moving.

I would read this book.
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thanks for writing it so I could have the pleasure of reading it.
Quite possibly the nicest thing anyone's said to me in relation to writing. Thanks to the majority for all the comments and encouragement.

I sort of half expected to be flamed off the forum after posting this but it's good to see you all have a varied sense of humour.

Writing this was an exercise I tried just to get something posted on this site before I made opinions about other peoples work. I had some scraps of dialogue and a few anecdotes I had written down so I strung them altogether and this was the result.

I'll be spending the next few weeks trying to expand on this before moving onto something else because I don't like the end result but I do like some of the anecdotes and don't want them wasted on this piece.

Thanks again

(And thanks to Clancy for pointing out a shocking typo. I hang my head...)
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