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aplus
09-30-2005, 09:50 AM
http://slumz.boxden.com/showthread.php?t=438164

Crits or compliments...all feedback appreciated...A+

What I Remember


I remember leaving work early one Friday afternoon, after giving my supervisor some lame excuse that I could hardly believe he bought.

I remember renting a convertible for the weekend, picking you up at your uptown condo, and heading up to Duluth together, just to get away.

I remember holding hands while strolling along the shore of the largest Great Lake, and then shopping for jazz and classic soul CD’s at the Electric Fetus record store over on Superior Street.

I remember sitting together in a plain hotel room, munching down third-rate Chinese food from tiny cardboard boxes, and then sharing a bottle of cheap champagne.

I remember your thin curving mouth stretching across your pretty face, with a million little white teeth forming a perfect smile.

I remember you lighting several scented candles near the bed, creating a romantic glow, so you could make believe that we were glamorous lovers straight out of your favorite soap opera.

I remember you mounting me atop the still made bed. I remember still being partially clothed while engaging in passionate kisses, our mouths falling into an urgent, rhythmic embrace.

I remember my educated hands unhooking your pink brassiere with knowing ease, releasing your swollen breasts and jutting nipples from the confines of their satin prison.

I remember you stopping, looking serious all of a sudden, and then saying, “Swear that you’ll never stop being mine.”

I remember wondering at that moment whether I had actually ever started being yours, if you actually possessed me like a piece of real estate, or if you possessed me like some kind of demon.

I remember eventually feeling so aroused that I could no longer be bothered with considering the ethics of the situation.

And I remember noticing your anxious expression, then thinking about how our pending night of sexual amusement hinged on my answer, and finally saying, “I swear.”

I remember engaging in several hours of spirited intercourse, a night restless with passion. I also remember not enjoying it as much as I normally would.

I remember waking up to find you staring at me, your eyes glaring out as if you already knew the outcome of our relationship.

I remember two weeks later, after we exchanged insults and long-winded phone messages, feeling a tinge of guilt, not for any dirt that I may or may not have done, but for making a promise that I knew I could never keep.

~BLUEPRINT~
09-30-2005, 10:37 AM
I want more damnit....keep it going plus....gimme a chapter 2 or something..

aplus
09-30-2005, 10:48 AM
I'll work on that, blue...I'm guessing that since you want more, I at least got your attention with this story so far, so I'll see what more I can do with this...

TriceJ
10-10-2005, 01:33 PM
Aplus that was damn sexygirl

aplus
10-10-2005, 01:47 PM
thanks Trice...but you know....that I am aplus, and aplus = a man....don't you?

read it again closer homie, I'm the nigga takin the bra off the girl, not vice versa

SuNsHiNe_BLuE
10-13-2005, 01:38 PM
ok this is the last one of your stories i'm reading today...not because i don't enjoy them, because they're one of the things i enjoy most on this godforsaken site.... HOWEVER there are ONLY so many different ways one can say YOU'RE A BRILLIANT WRITER....so give us more like print said...i'm waiting *hands on hips*

Def Poet
10-14-2005, 08:39 AM
yeah bruh you need to drop another part to this story...real good story

aplus
10-14-2005, 09:34 AM
thanks for the positive feedback, ya'll. i am gonna work on that sequel or prequel this weekend, same style, but doing "what I forgot" instead of what I remember...should be able to grind that out...cheaah....

conscious thug
10-16-2005, 01:46 AM
very good! I liked that a lot. My own stories tend to be twisted, so I was expecting him to kill her or something...but then again, that's my own "issues" lol

Obloquy
10-16-2005, 01:57 AM
This is comma-heavy and droll. The subject matter is uninspired and the format is needlessly repetitive. You can write recollection without using "I remember" every sentence. Stylistically, that wears thin and loses its power around the third or fourth time you use it.

The events themselves are believable if uninteresting and you salvaged a decent ending rumination however.

conscious thug
10-16-2005, 02:00 AM
damn, tell us how you REALLY feel...lol

aplus
10-16-2005, 06:16 AM
thanks conscious thug...and oloboquy, for being brutally honest

I write comma-heavy often because I don't like the alternative most writers do today, when the string endlesses sentences connected with prepositions instead of creating a new phrase or sentence. But in a you are right, this piece does have a lot of commas...

The repetition...that was just the style of this one piece, trying to do something different from my usual, that's why I repeated "I remember"...I have a lot of stories (on here) where I don't repeat I remember to show recollection...this was just a style tool I tried, just for one time...but it's all good, not every piece is made for everybody...