The winner of LitWit Challenge 4.5: Bed of Nails is. . .
The famous kitchen table scene from The Postman Always Rings Twice (Bob Rafelson, 1981).
Not #14 miss choi: “The stench of adultery floated past me and travelled down the hallway. . .”??
Not #16 angus25: “Emily stared at the bed with rancor”??
Not #21 wenkebach: “he gave me the keys, a mistake he’d regret for life”. . .which lasts a couple of days.
Not #24 dibee: “she was already on top of her”?? “She sat up and one of his hands moved to her breast while the other one seemed to be guiding her member to enter her”??
Not #25 Cacs. We are all for offending the religious, but the love triangle is kind of a cheap shot. When taking down a well-loved figure, one must remain above such things as where they hide the sausage.
The finalists are:
#15 stellalehua, in which the cuckold beholds the offense then folds the laundry, cleans the bathroom, vacuums the carpet and prepares dinner for two.
#20 the chronicler of boredom, in which the aggrieved wife photographs the offenders in flagrante delicto, attacks them with a golf club and threatens to release the photos if her financial demands are not met.
#23 winnerific, in which the aggrieved party rubs chillies all over the offending parties’ underwear.
In #20 and #23 the shocked wives behave very rationally, which happens, but we don’t believe them as written. #15 is the most perverse reaction by far as the “victim” proceeds to render service to his tormentors. Therefore the winner of LitWit Challenge 4.5: Bed of Nails is stellalehua.
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January 26th, 2011 at 06:38
Congrats to the finalists and to the eventual winner, stellalehua!
January 26th, 2011 at 09:32
Eh nakakaloka naman kasi eh. Congratulations stellalehua!
January 26th, 2011 at 10:29
stellalehua is queen! My hunch was right. Congratulations!
Thank you Yucch Meter. I’m happy to be a runner-up. Now, how do I get rid of stellalehua and winnerific?
January 26th, 2011 at 12:40
Congratulations to the winning entry from stellalehua, the current, er, Cacs-sacker.
This contest reminded me of an old Roald Dahl story, “Mrs. Bixby and the Mink Coat.” [Spoiler Alert and Summary: The cuckolded husband’s inadvertent revenge was that he had also been carrying on in an adulterous affair all the while. The wife found out and therefore the “revenge” was effective, yet the husband never even knew that he was being cuckolded.]
January 26th, 2011 at 14:19
Congrats stellalehua! ive always liked your entries, specially the one for “Evol”. My original story was almost the same as yours up to the “folding the clothes” part. Except mine was bleh… had to scrap it :)
chronicler: dont worry. that entry was a fluke :)
January 26th, 2011 at 18:50
Gah. I knew my first try was quite baduy. Still, CONGRATULATIONS! :D
January 26th, 2011 at 23:41
Awwww! Seriously, guys, thank you all for your kind words. :) And a great big tip of the hat to my two co-finalists, since I enjoyed their entries as well.
Chronicler: I can be easily bribed, you know. ;)
Winnerific: Awww, you even remembered my Evol entry, too! I also had a different story in mind when I started, but that one ended up on the cutting-room floor as well, so to speak.
Akyat Bahay: I once borrowed a collection of Roald Dahl’s short stories from the library when I was 13 – and by mistake, at first, since everyone’s idea of Dahl was based on James and The Giant Peach. I don’t regret it at all, though.
Miss-Choi: My first try for LitWit was quite cheese-tastic, too, so it took me a while before I was able to take on the Yucch-Meter. Practice, practice, practice, I say, and you’ll get there in due time.
January 27th, 2011 at 01:26
Congrats stellahua! I re-read your entry, twas really good :)
January 27th, 2011 at 07:59
Thanks, brewhuh23! :)