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Posted by Pete on July 25, 2007, 11:37 pm, in reply to "Attraction to Death" What has always fascinated me is not a slow lingering death, although I’m not opposed to enjoying the contrast of a beautiful woman at the end of her journey to the attractive healthy woman she SHOULD and WOULD still be if she quite simply hadn’t started smoking, surely I’m not alone on that one? What always draws me is that one moment where the walls crumble. Her diagnosis given in a Doctors surgery or that sudden heart attack when the fatal realisation dawns that the bold warnings on all those packets really were meant for her. It’s that one moment when suddenly the dice doesn’t go in her favour. That despite what she thought, it really wont be any different for her at all. She like many before her will quite simply become a tragic smoking statistic. I do like the idea of a beautiful woman paying the price for her habit and of course if some of those attractive women that we all see out about smoking didn’t pay the ultimate price, well there would be no risk at all and where would the fun in that be? Pete
Interesting thread this one. For me I’ve always enjoyed the fantasy of when the roll of the dice doesn’t go in the woman’s favour. When the gamble is lost. I’m always drawn to that select band of women maybe in their late thirties or forties whose credit line suddenly runs out? It’s a constant theme in my stories as some of you may know. That moment the rug is suddenly pulled out from beneath her and she stares the stark and brutal reality of her habit in the face and of course knowing that it was all so avoidable. That she is quite simply the architect of her own destruction. She knew all the risks, she ignored all the little warnings signs, so utterly convinced that it wouldn’t be her. I cannot deny I don’t enjoy such thoughts. I’ve written many ‘end game’ scenarios over on Matts board so many here will know what I’m about.
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