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10 years ago
I had honestly forgotten that some fiction had unhappy endings. I don't know what this says about me, but I don't typically watch movies with unhappy endings. I was convinced to watch a Stephen King movie with a really revoltingly bad ending, one designed to be not only very unhappy, but futile at the same time. I nearly wanted to punch out the one responsible for me seeing it. Especially when I found out he knew that's how it ended. Let's say it will likely be my last Stephen King movie as well. It's not that it was too scary, just too goddamn depressing.
But no, see, I was reading a story in a magazine I got at MFF some years ago. It was a story about someone in a relationship that he felt had gone cold, with a mate who seemed to like it that way. The main character had been feeling the desire to cheat.
I was reading along, wondering where it was going. I was trying to see how it was going to be resolved, I mean it was a short story, it had to result in the couple reconciling. But the pages were running out, and it wasn't happening. I was on the last page, and it was looking bad, but no, something else had to happen, didn't it? Sentences keep coming, and then it's over, ending on a suggestion that maybe things aren't going to get better.
Sorry, I did a garbage job explaining it, but I didn't want to retell the story, on the offchance that anyone reading this runs into it and doesn't want it ruined.
I was about to go to bed. I thought it was going to be a happier story. I thought it was going to give me something to drift off to sleep thinking about. Now I'm left with the thought "sometimes things don't work out" repeating in my head. How can I sleep after that?
Damnit furry authors... aren't you supposed to be writing porn? I mean, there was sex in it... it was pretty hot. But this author was shooting for erotica, not porn, so he put the rest of the story in there too and I'm left feeling distinctly unsettled.
Still... I need to learn to stop reading this stuff before bed. The last time I did this I was left quite traumatized by a particularly difficult passage in a longer book, and it took me hours to get to sleep.
Gah... now I need to find something to distract and relax me from the thing that was supposed to help me relax. This could get to become a vicious cycle. Believe me, I've learned my lesson, I'm not touching anymore short fiction tonight. Maybe I'll go with someone playing some pleasantly slow paced game on youtube.
But no, see, I was reading a story in a magazine I got at MFF some years ago. It was a story about someone in a relationship that he felt had gone cold, with a mate who seemed to like it that way. The main character had been feeling the desire to cheat.
I was reading along, wondering where it was going. I was trying to see how it was going to be resolved, I mean it was a short story, it had to result in the couple reconciling. But the pages were running out, and it wasn't happening. I was on the last page, and it was looking bad, but no, something else had to happen, didn't it? Sentences keep coming, and then it's over, ending on a suggestion that maybe things aren't going to get better.
Sorry, I did a garbage job explaining it, but I didn't want to retell the story, on the offchance that anyone reading this runs into it and doesn't want it ruined.
I was about to go to bed. I thought it was going to be a happier story. I thought it was going to give me something to drift off to sleep thinking about. Now I'm left with the thought "sometimes things don't work out" repeating in my head. How can I sleep after that?
Damnit furry authors... aren't you supposed to be writing porn? I mean, there was sex in it... it was pretty hot. But this author was shooting for erotica, not porn, so he put the rest of the story in there too and I'm left feeling distinctly unsettled.
Still... I need to learn to stop reading this stuff before bed. The last time I did this I was left quite traumatized by a particularly difficult passage in a longer book, and it took me hours to get to sleep.
Gah... now I need to find something to distract and relax me from the thing that was supposed to help me relax. This could get to become a vicious cycle. Believe me, I've learned my lesson, I'm not touching anymore short fiction tonight. Maybe I'll go with someone playing some pleasantly slow paced game on youtube.
