One small point: even when the male is shown to be a philanderer, it is an easy label. There is still a reluctance to label the marriage-breaking woman, the husband-stealing woman, the adulterous woman, the floozy, who deliberately has an affair with a married man. The author (you Denise) has the command of the keyboard and chooses the words and where to use them.

If I may add on to the heaping criticism (in a cute way), your story was like a very big bread sandwich with two slices of meat around it.

That said, there are observations to make about this story in relation to the divorce courts and modern society of today. Even back then, all men were treated under probationary status and David Roberts went to jail for a year on a totally trumped up charge. Modern man hating feminism is a natural outgrowth of this philosophy.

In addition, Grace Lusk’s story is not only a magificient silent film come to life, but also similar to Fatal Attraction starring Glenn Close and Michael Douglas. There were “career women” in the early 20th century and they went nuts and used violence and force to try to steal alpha males away from their wife. Not much has changed, eh?

In both stories, the man realizes he’s made the mistake of sleeping with a nut and due to the chivalrous nature of the court system, can’t find an easy way to get him, and his family, out of the situation.

The first part up to where Grace shoots herself a second time was very good. Fast, riveting, exciting, and juicy. I liked the way you could almost see the emotions compelling the principles to act. After that part, the story slowed too much and I lost interest.

(Denise) Thank you, wtexas, both for the compliment and the criticism. I appreciate constructive cricism.

After that, I didn’t have time to read any further, had to get back to work.

If you ask me, she took too long to say nothing.

So now we are getting true detective stories, lesbian literature, and what i fear is nothing more than someone spending their days reading whatever fad comes to their mind, and then putting that out as ‘work’ regardless.

I am starting to think that something is wrong in denmark.

Yet another waste-of-space article.