That's all I don't think of you often by Rigmarole

Thanks for flagging that one up, 2Lou! Relevent, but also somewhat surreal... and funny! "P"

I think this is absolutely great! "So what am I - I said - just a damp patch on the video? I meant duvet. We'd had quite a lot to drink." A wonderful couple of lines. Interestingly, I didn't see this as being at all surreal and not really all that funny, not really. It has lovely kitchen sink / grubby realism to it, but one that isn't limited to the mundane. I love that about it , that 'here is grubby reality, but look, it can be as mad or whimsical as you want it to be'. Most of the lines in this could be spun off into whole novels, like "Have you been arrested again for posing as an ex-IRA man for the benefit of rich American women." Brilliant! Cheers, Mark Brown, Editor, www.ABCtales.com

I suppose my surrealness comment is down to it being just slightly more weird than "grubby realism" - oh, and lines like... "Or for wandering through a park in Fulham with a samurai sword in one hand and a hurley stick in the other." ...and that it just generally has an overal surreal(ish) quality/style... in a way that I can't really explain! It's funny, but darkly funny - sort of cringeworthy funny, like those moments in "The Office" when something is painfully close to the tragic truth, but you can't help laughing nonetheless. Love it, thought! Great stuff! Immediate! Straight to the point! And has aspects that there's probably hardly a person in the world who can't relate to... "P"

The existence of these two characters seems, I think, quite credible. (well it does to me!) and the humour in such a situation - however gruesome - is kind of hard to ignore. Many thanks to everyone..

Hi there, I particularly enjoyed your Internet dave story - having been through a similar experience. It is very engaging, and raw.The bits about the lies were very thorough. I love the 'if you get this, call me' at the end. He should be castrated. See what you think of my story about Stine - cheating, but the other way around! Thanks for a great read AB27

Ow! Wow! What a waste! I couldn't find your story, AB27, it didn't seem to be listed alphabetically and the find-an-author page don't seem to be working no how. Maybe you'd send me a copy. There were two kinds of response to Internet Dave - from women, who sympathised with the character, and men who didn't. Their line was - what do women want - she knowingly gets into - and stays - in an unsuitable relationship with a man who is clearly never going to change - and then she moans about it. The character (whoever she was) was aware of all this, but at the time she was just too emotionally and sexually dependant on to do anything about it. Look forward to reading your piece.