All Comments on 'Vienna Waltz'

I normally really enjoy your work, but this was painful to read.

Missy was an absolute bitch. Kevin should have just divorced her when she cheated on him. Even after they reconciled, she made him miserable for years, neglecting him and their family. Forgetting her own son was in surgery? What a self-centred cunt.

An exquisite story told so well, and it went by so quickly. Perhaps too fast.

You get people, their desires, faults, all of it.

Thank you for sharing it with us.

'5'

This plucked my heart strings, but still a treasure!

This started out as a charmer and became something warm and deep. Would that we all share the same happy end. Thank you for this endearing story.

But reaffirming and deeply affecting. A grand adventure, tragic and magical. Kudos for your reversal of traditional gender stereotypes. Thank you.

It was a tear jerker, well written and nicely paced. I am looking forward to August 19 and the great stories which will be posted for our pleasure. When you have Longhorn and qhml1 posting on the same day, you have a very special day. This is going to be so much fun!

Believable people living believable lives. These aren't characters in a story; these are real people living real, messy, lives. People do stupid things. Sometimes they're able to recover and rebuild, sometimes their mistakes destroy them. This story is about recovering and rebuilding: fittingly enough, since its about a carpenter! Your skills & talents continue to grow; thank you for sharing them with us.

Wonderful story, definite 5-Star!!

However it also reads as a synopsis proposal for a wonderful novel or series of novels. So many great story lines left unexplored and major life transitions rendered quaint.

A story of this power could go very far...

Beautiful story.

great story

Thank you for the beautiful story, Bebop. I look forward to seeing the others in this group of stories. This is going to be sick nasty. Qhml1, Stev2244, MattblackUK, Harddaysknight, Girlinthemoon, DTIverson, Woodmanone, RichardGerald, Laptopwriter, Longhorn__07, Piperhamlin, what a great line-up. Yeet! More please, Randi.

and great to see what i think is the first Rush reference i have seen on Literotica !!!

The best story you've written. Thanks so much.

It was wonderful. Keep writing.

My husband lost his wife and baby daughter less than a year after they were married, and all he has left of her is the outgoing message on their old Sony answering machine; I know that when he sees his surviving daughter, grown and married now, and how she looks eerily like her mom, that's when the hurt comes back, and then he'll play that tape, and listen to her voice, and grit his teeth so I won't see him crying. I know he loves me, he shows it in a million different ways, but his first wife was his first love, he asked her to marry him when he was 6 years old, and she waited for him to come get her, and she and their daughter were taken from him so cruelly, so I leave him be, and when he's ready to talk, I help him remember her

I'm glad I read this story.

There are several authors on Lit who, in my opinion, are amazingly talented. This effort from Bebop3 certainly ranks at the very top of the list. Thank you for your efforts.

Rare to get well written, emotional, and tearful stories here.

Simply awesome

Anna

Uk

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Very nice work. I drew an odd look or two, though, when I cackled out loud over the mention of that highly esteemed firm out of Toronto, Pearl, Lifeson & Lee.

What an excellent, excellent story. The very best.

Beautifully written and very touching.

This one haad everything.

5*

Awesome!!

Thank you

Ed

For this geezer - a believable tear jerker. Very well written.

I didn't want to see her crash, and you pulled it out with aplomb.

This was well done.

Axelotto

Loved it

In a literary world of dross there appears a gem and it is greatly appreciated. It will spoil readers like me as we search in vain for its equal. Analysis would only spoil the effect. 5* is hardly sufficient!

That was a great story. You’ve squeezed a tear out of a cynical old man. thanks.

Amazing, so much talent regardless of genre. You are my favorite writer on this or the other site. Thank you!

5* for a fantastic read. Thank you for sharing.

I just love the way you TELL us everything. I really felt like I sitting across from someone telling me a story. It was TOLD so well.

ᕕ(ᐛ)ᕗ <----That guy is dancing with joy.

A quite well written tale. Tightly written at 4 pages, it spans a lifetime. The health twist and her subsequent career were well done. I echo a previous comment: This story leaves us looking for an equal (We haven't already read)

Fantastic story, although I would have preferred Kevin not dying so soon after he got her back. Good job, Mr. Bebop.

No words... simply beatiful!

You really know how to write a love story. It was real life, real human and real love.

I love your stories, but this outdid the rest. Please keep up the great work.

I disliked this story. Missy was a thoroughly unlikable character, realistic or not. Self-centered, ungrateful, and ultimately disloyal, she did everything with herself in mind while using generosity and people who loved her as a facade. When it came down to it, she let down everyone who was important to her all for the sake of what she wanted. SHE wanted to pass the bar so she focused on herself and let Kevin take care of her. SHE wanted comfort after Jack died so she had an affair. SHE wanted to be a senator like her dad yet didn't make time for family the way he did. SHE wanted to show everyone what a great politician she was so she missed her children's lives and failed her son when he needed her most. SHE quit being a senator when it became obvious she would lose her family. SHE wanted Kevin to go into the dancing competition, etc, etc... on and on. That's the real reason she was never close to her son Sam. He saw through her bullshit and her public persona and knew how selfish she really was. Through this entire story she never once put the needs of someone else before her. Oh, she played it up to make it seem like she did but it never happened. She can play the nice grandma and give cookies to all the little children all she wants but it doesn't change the fact that she failed every person in her family.

Sorry if I come across too strongly but I found very little to like about this story. Kevin was by far the best character and he was too good for this woman. He should have divorced her after she confessed about her affair and spent the rest of his days with a woman who would love and appreciate him for the treasure he was instead of chasing his ungrateful glory hound of a wife. Well written story but not an enjoyable one.

I cried. This was not a perfect story but it made the world seem real for a while. Understanding what your might loose is a powerful motivation to change your life.

Agree with Anonymous, the female lead was self-centered, self-absorbed and the center of her universe. This not intolerable, at least not when a teenager. But she remained so throughout her life...... even her passing was all about her, not about the wonder I believe she should have felt at all the familiar faces that came to greet her in passing to the afterlife.

I will give her credit for owning her mistakes. But on the whole, I find her reprehensible. The writing was well executed. The story? A bitter pill.

This is the third story of yours that I have read, and each was outstanding. I don't typically read much in the Romance category (almost always a result of reading something in a different category, liking it, and starting to read other works by the same author) but in this case, it was a very good move on my part. You're a terrific writer and I will be looking for your stories in the future. Thank you.

Nice life path. She was very fortunate and blessed to have encountered Kevin.

You have chops.

Mistakes, remorse, amends, reconciliation .... Life.

Thank you, Bebop. *****

I’ve read all your stories except the “loving wives”, a category I can’t stand. But now I’m going back and reading them. Please write more, you make my heart pound like no other on this site.

the word "insured" should be spelled "ensured".

I'm trying to type with tears in my eyes and goosebumps on my skin. Well done, my friend.

As others have pointed out, Missy had some serious flaws. To her credit, though, she learned from her mistakes. Five star story.

Words fail me, Thank God they do not fail you!

I kneel before your magnifigance!

An excellent story. Superbly written. Too bad he wasted his life on her.

Beautiful Story! I knew they would get back together. It is the Author in you. I love Burn the Bitch stories but I always have that Hope! Thank you for another beautifully written story, 25 BIG FAT FUZZY TWINKLING STARS! lol

That was beautiful, I love your writing. If you are an author out in the "Real world" you need to tell me so I can go buy all of your books.

Beautiful and fantastic skills. Definitely a five star 🌟💫🌟💫🌟💫🌟💫🌟

A nice story, very well told and designed around a likable male lead. Kevin's wife however wanted to have her cake and eat it to. I'm not unsympathetic towards her. While I never could have been a lawyer or a politician, the drive to achieve something, to produce something unique and to have a family at the same time is something I can easily relate to.

But in her field of work it probably means the day would have to have 48 hours to do justice to both her professional life and family. The crucial point is, almost throughout her married life she and Kevin weren't much more than ships, passing each other at night. Can a love survive that long regardless? And who is that feeling directed at? The person you once fell in love with and that you really didn't know all that well, back when?

Our heroine made peace with herself and shiftet her priorities. But that wasn't too long before her husband died. The late 'epiphany' doesn't change the fact that Kevin was some sort of a single parent and to her more of an asset to her career advances than anything else. Nice words and afterthoughts don't alter that reality. In the very end you could say she was successful in eating her cake and having it, too. A nice fantasy, to have everything, including a clean conscience.

Very good story. Missy was extremely unlikeable. Self-centered and disloyal... Kevin should have divorced her after she had an affair as he deeply grieved their lost son. She was in no way worthy of him.

A beautiful story. Only compliant.. it belongs in romance. Simply loved it

She was not worth the forgiveness.

Very good story.

Wonderful

This was a wonderful catalogue of a life, with a perfectly bittersweet ending.

I agree with all the other comments about this being a skilfully-told story, but I disagree about Missy being 'unlikable'. She isn't. She's just human.

5* and a thank you for posting.

Third reading

Didn't comment the first two times through, but after reading all these comments (55 at this writing) I have to respond. You chose a diffifult story to tell, a romance involving a strong, ambitious woman who was a less-than-perfect wife and mother, who betrayed her husband when they both were trying to deal with the traumatic loss of their young son, yet was fundamentally a good person. You pulled it off (no surprise there) by showing her back away from the precipice when she finally saw the danger. I disagree with those who condemn her as selfish or lacking empathy, they didn't take the trouble to understand the complex character you so skillfully painted. A lesser writer would have been satisfied simply to let her be the typical lawyer who achieves her goals by climbing over the bodies of those who love her. Well done.

Just reread this and am a ball of tears again. Well done

Good story Kevin Was cheated on while mentally and emotionally dying and didn't seek out an affair. Then almost the only parent.

He still didn't seek other cheating company he just decided to divorce and she managed to get her act together and talk him out of it.

Of course the poor palooka then died.

Perfect. Thank you.

Quite an interesting life and story. All good but still no reason for an affair.

Astonishing story. I'm in awe of the diverse interests you bring to the table. The depth of emotion evoked is gripping. Thank you.

LMJ

Fantastic story! Five stars and favorited.

Also, there were two things that stuck with me:

"Peart, Lifeson and Lee, Attorneys at law" made me laugh out loud? Is that Rush LLP?

The bit about keeping Kevin's cell phone active after he died so that the MC could hear his voice choked me up. I did the same thing with my dad's number for a several years after he passed.

Didn’t really care for the story. Well written but it seems she got everything she wanted and left her husband to take care of everything else. I guess it’s a realistic rendering of life but I don’t read these stories for reality. I’m forced to live there. I read them to see people have good faith-full lives. It seems we are always dreaming of the “happily ever after “ but always forced to wake up to reality. LM

This story fills my heart. Thank you.

Captivating