Same time, next year

[Rob_Royale]

Based on an old Alan Alda film of the same name. Briefly, two married people end up booking the same cabin at the same time due to a clerical error, and they end having an affair. They decide to do it every year, and we see them age and go through lifes troubles and so forth. There are a lot of very poignant moments. Losing a son in Vietnam, a spouse with cancer. And each time they help each other through the hardship if only to be a shoulder to cry on. Despite the obvious cheating, it's a very sweet story.

Absolutely the sort of story that would get breaded and panfried by the readers in LW.

I've always found the idea very intriquing. Maybe a married man stops at a roadside motel during a wicked storm on his annual trip for whatever. There are no rooms available as plenty of motorists had the same idea.

The woman who owns/runs the lodge, her husband is away on his annual trip for whatever. She invites him to crash on her couch as she locks the door and turns on the 'no vacancy' sign.

Shenanigans ensue.

Any other ideas for different circumstances?

 

[SteelPoint]

'Same time, next year?' is the message on a note left on a bed beside a very satisfied woman in a story I (almost) finished a few years ago.

Had almost forgotten about it. Must go and dig it up.

 

[sirhugs]

always a classic... just needs some good Literotica twists.

 

[dirk2024]

Based on an old Alan Alda film of the same name.

I loved that movie.

Absolutely the sort of story that would get breaded and panfried by the readers in LW.

Any other ideas for different circumstances?

I do like your idea with the woman at the lodge.

The only thing I could think of is similar to the original. Two people meet at a business convention. So same premise, just a different location. So not really much of a change.

 

[sirhugs]

I loved that movie.





I do like your idea with the woman at the lodge.

The only thing I could think of is similar to the original. Two people meet at a business convention. So same premise, just a different location. So not really much of a change.

I think meeting at a wedding, or their kids' graduation might also present interesting challenges as they try to invent reasons for the reunions.

 

[liliput1]

Annual work conventions are a fairly popular option for this. @HelenL has one called Casual, which avoids the usual trope, as someone recently put it, "Oh no, there's only one bed!"

One of my favorite stories here is a trope I've enjoyed a couple of times. Two kids who fall into puppy love with each other at an annual summer vacation they have in common, and then something happens with one of the families and they just stop showing up. One of my all time favorite songs is Verdi Cries by 10,000 Maniacs which, in addition to just being a really fucking good ballad, is a happy recollection of a childhood vacation to a hotel on a beach. Something about these themes pushes buttons for me that I don't even understand. Like perhaps a repressed memory of a holiday friend I've forgotten because I was just shattered to know I'd never see them again.

Holidays
must end as you know.
All is memory
taken home with me:
the opera, the stolen tea,
the sand drawing, the verging sea,
all years ago.

It was not on my favorites list. Appalling. Bad boy, no cookie!

Sandcastles, by @onehitwanda

If you want the HAE instead of just hot af sex:

Long intermissions of this sort have a way of breaking platonic friendships and letting them evolve into something more. The people we are around all the time can begin to feel like siblings or family to us, and you don't want to see them as a man, or a woman. It's just Steve, or it's just Jessica. But if they reappear taller, stronger, more graceful, much more mature, then there's that window where you forget that you already decided they are categorically not a love interest. With that long shared history but also sex on the table there's the chance for them to hop over into being your person rather than an old friend. Every reunion is another opportunity for love at first sight.

 

[anthrodisiac]

Oh, I have an idea. So, they do this for a while at a pretty nice hotel; not super-upscale, but not somewhere seedy. Then one year, one of them passes, and the other still goes, either not knowing what happened or to honor their memory. So either after waiting or sitting there for a bit, they're about to leave when the ghost of the other appears to keep on with the tradition, maybe able to take corporeal form for just one night a year because of how special their bond was, or some sappy nonsense like that.

If you want to go more supernatural:
They keep doing this for a while after both die. Maybe they just fuck as ghosts, or they possess whoever happens to be in that hotel room that night (or pick two people in the hotel, then meet in "their room"). People wake up afterword, groggy and confused about what happened. Shocked or embarassed, confused, accusations, but maybe it leads to something, a spark between them, and they get together if they weren't already, and they engage in the same tradition, going to the place they met, getting possessed (ghosts somehow let them in on what happened so it's not freaky each time).

Second option could be either erotic horror or HEE (happily ever eternity).

 

[NuclearFairy]

What if it's two couples that keep meeting up at the same lodge every year, first time was an accident, but after that they continue to spouse swap. They share everything with each other for this one week every year, except contact details.

Then decades later, one half of each couple dies in the same year, and the other half of the couple goes to the lodge anyways, as a way to say their final good bye to their spouse by letting the other couple know. Only to realized after getting together with the other widow/er that this time, they want to exchange contact details.

Could go with opposite genders of survivors. But, I think, it might be more poignant if it was both the husbands or wives that survived for that last meeting.

 

[Rob_Royale]

What if it's two couples that keep meeting up at the same lodge every year, first time was an accident, but after that they continue to spouse swap. They share everything with each other for this one week every year, except contact details.

Then decades later, one half of each couple dies in the same year, and the other half of the couple goes to the lodge anyways, as a way to say their final good bye to their spouse by letting the other couple know. Only to realized after getting together with the other widow/er that this time, they want to exchange contact details.

Could go with opposite genders of survivors. But, I think, it might be more poignant if it was both the husbands or wives that survived for that last meeting.

That's a lovely idea.

 

[dirk2024]

Or...even another twist.

Alice checks into her usual room on the usual date of the year. She's been looking forward to this time with Max for 360 days. She hears the door open and close to the room next to hers, Max's room. Her heart starts to beat faster looking forward to their reunion. They've been doing this for over two decades now.

There's a knock on the door and she quickly crosses the room, popping a few buttons open on her blouse along the way. She opens the door, eager to greet her annual lover, but is shocked.

Standing there is a young man, perhaps late twenties. He looks familiar, but can't quite place this good looking younger man. She asks, "can I help you?"

He smiles, "Hi, I'm Max Jr. Dad couldn't make it so he sent me."

 

[liliput1]

If you want to go more supernatural:
They keep doing this for a while after both die. Maybe they just fuck as ghosts, or they possess whoever happens to be in that hotel room that night (or pick two people in the hotel, then meet in "their room"). People wake up afterword, groggy and confused about what happened. Shocked or embarassed, confused, accusations, but maybe it leads to something, a spark between them, and they get together if they weren't already, and they engage in the same tradition, going to the place they met, getting possessed (ghosts somehow let them in on what happened so it's not freaky each time).

Second option could be either erotic horror or HEE (happily ever eternity).

We have to explain to the new hotel employee that the hotel is only haunted the second weekend in July and no this is not the New Employee Hazing Prank, that's different. Seriously stay out of room 202 and 203 until after checkout on Monday morning.

 

[Statius]

What if it's two couples that keep meeting up at the same lodge every year, first time was an accident, but after that they continue to spouse swap. They share everything with each other for this one week every year, except contact details.

Then decades later, one half of each couple dies in the same year, and the other half of the couple goes to the lodge anyways, as a way to say their final good bye to their spouse by letting the other couple know. Only to realized after getting together with the other widow/er that this time, they want to exchange contact details.

Could go with opposite genders of survivors. But, I think, it might be more poignant if it was both the husbands or wives that survived for that last meeting.

That is a fantastic idea. You should write that.

 

[NuclearFairy]

That is a fantastic idea. You should write that.

But, they're so human. o.o

More seriously though, I'm juggling like six other stories ATM with another couple dozen waiting on the back burner. XD

 

[Statius]

But, they're so human. o.o

More seriously though, I'm juggling like six other stories ATM with another couple dozen waiting on the back burner. XD

Oh come on, what's one more?


Just kidding, that is a lot

 

[liliput1]

Oh come on, what's one more?


Just kidding, that is a lot

It’s only like 5% more.

 

[Statius]

It’s only like 5% more.

Writing six stories with a couple dozen waiting? And living life? Breathing, eating, bathing- if you're into that- sleeping- optional I know, to a point- seems like a lot to me

 

[anthrodisiac]

That is a fantastic idea. You should write that.

Stop trying to corrupt Nuc into writing your gross human stories Let her do sexy non-humans!

I mean, let her write sexy non-human stories

 

[Statius]

Stop trying to corrupt Nuc into writing your gross human stories Let her do sexy non-humans!

I mean, let her write sexy non-human stories

Corrupt? How do you corrupt anyone on Lit? Aren't we all here because we're corrupt already?

But yes, of course Nuc can and should keep writing sexy non human stories.

However if she chose to expand and write something else, that'd be good, too. Stepping outside our norms is healthy, no?

 

[Statius]

Stop trying to corrupt Nuc into writing your gross human stories Let her do sexy non-humans!

I mean, let her write sexy non-human stories

Oh and human stories are only gross if they revolve around feet

 

[anthrodisiac]

Oh and human stories are only gross if they revolve around feet

There's no emoji for how much I agree with this.

 

[sirhugs]

Oh and human stories are only gross if they revolve around feet

There's no emoji for how much I agree with this.

There is no emoji for how much I disagree with this,

Mmmm ....feeet

 

[MikeXIrons]

Based on an old Alan Alda film of the same name. Briefly, two married people end up booking the same cabin at the same time due to a clerical error, and they end having an affair. They decide to do it every year, and we see them age and go through lifes troubles and so forth. There are a lot of very poignant moments. Losing a son in Vietnam, a spouse with cancer. And each time they help each other through the hardship if only to be a shoulder to cry on. Despite the obvious cheating, it's a very sweet story.

Absolutely the sort of story that would get breaded and panfried by the readers in LW.

I've always found the idea very intriquing. Maybe a married man stops at a roadside motel during a wicked storm on his annual trip for whatever. There are no rooms available as plenty of motorists had the same idea.

The woman who owns/runs the lodge, her husband is away on his annual trip for whatever. She invites him to crash on her couch as she locks the door and turns on the 'no vacancy' sign.

Shenanigans ensue.

Any other ideas for different circumstances?

I'm always a fan of an otherwise innocent person (especially a woman) being in a situation where she acts, naughty for some reason… usually a slippery slope of some kind.

"Send next year” is more of a temporary timeout or rules suspension situation.

I think the trick is to have the pattern start innocently and have a reason to continue.

It could start totally innocently without cheating when they were both single. There are families that go vacationing the same week each year to a campsite or RV site or resort and see the same families here after year. The kids grow up knowing each other just that one year week a year, but families can sometimes become quite close, and the kids look forward to seeing their "camp friends”. Two families both have a bunch of kids, the oldest being a boy in one family and a girl and the other. And they've been friends for over a decade as they've grown up on opposite side of the country, but seeing each other one beautiful week a year. Early on it's just good clean kid fun. Then puberty hits and awkward and fun. That of course, is all backstory and not part of a lit story. It's not till they return from college to continue the family tradition that the story begins. They reminisce about being each other's first practice kiss… no romance just wanting to know what it's like and being close enough to say why not? Then at 18 they help each other pursue their crushes giving each other advice and again what they referred to " a practice dummy”. So nothing was off from it, but it was all off the record and not cheating because they were helping each other with their crushes. And, at that age, nothing was really exclusive. Time stopped in the rule stopped during that one week. So as they graduated college and got married, they continued returning to the campsite as a family tradition. They rationalized it as a way to see their parents and their siblings and their nieces and nephews. That's also how they rationalized not bringing their spouses. So it was never cheating per se. They were just so close and had so much history that there were no boundaries.


Alternatively, I could see it starting when one of them thought it wasn't cheating. Perhaps her husband was off at war and she got news that he had been killed. Someone, maybe his brother or a friend of his or his commanding officer, also having lost a spouse use before, console her and they have sex. On the anniversary of his death, they happen to meet again and repeat the encounter. And so it becomes a bit of a tradition. Then several years on a prisoner exchange and her husband comes home. In many ways, life resumes as normal. The anniversary approaches and she shows up to have one final talk with her lover, intending to let him down easy, but not wanting to simply abandon him. But it feels wrong, not to have sex and they decide just one more time. And of course, each year they say this will be the last I won't be coming next year. But each year they both do.

 

[MikeXIrons]

Based on an old Alan Alda film of the same name. Briefly, two married people end up booking the same cabin at the same time due to a clerical error, and they end having an affair. They decide to do it every year, and we see them age and go through lifes troubles and so forth. There are a lot of very poignant moments. Losing a son in Vietnam, a spouse with cancer. And each time they help each other through the hardship if only to be a shoulder to cry on. Despite the obvious cheating, it's a very sweet story.

Absolutely the sort of story that would get breaded and panfried by the readers in LW.

I've always found the idea very intriquing. Maybe a married man stops at a roadside motel during a wicked storm on his annual trip for whatever. There are no rooms available as plenty of motorists had the same idea.

The woman who owns/runs the lodge, her husband is away on his annual trip for whatever. She invites him to crash on her couch as she locks the door and turns on the 'no vacancy' sign.

Shenanigans ensue.

Any other ideas for different circumstances?

When younger, maybe in college, a man and woman date, and at some point start a fundraiser of some sort for a cause they are both passionate about. Perhaps it's a half marathon to raise money for cancer that took both of their parents. Even after they stop dating in college they continue to get together once a year to run this fundraiser because it's such a passion project. So as they both start seeing other people, it's just part of their nonnegotiable previous life. And something too important to pass up. And maybe they had a tradition of having sex to celebrate every time they break the previous fundraising record. And as they move through life, one gets married so they don't have the sex and the next year it rains and they don't raise nearly as much money. So out of superstition, they continue that tradition. And/or maybe her primary role is organizing and helping with the Massage tents for the participants. Turn to college cheers work out at her tent sometimes provided happy endings if the runner agreed to come back the following year. Another tradition that because of the cause is more important than real world rules of monogamy.

 

[MikeXIrons]

Summer in here, I posted a story idea about a woman who goes on a college ski trip each year with the old ski team, which is mostly men and includes an ex of hers. Her husband is jealous and keeps trying to come on the trip so she discourages him because nobody brings any non-ski team people. He insists one year and gets to see some of the crazy traditions and inside jokes that they have carried on. But one tradition is hidden from him a “challenge” or contest that team members used to do when they were dating – trying to in a single day accomplish a kiss, a hand job a blow job and sex on the gondola on a ride up to the top before the day was over. The trick of it was if you started the challenge (simply by kissing someone), you had to finish the challenge otherwise there was consequences like no longer belonging to the club in someway. So a challenge left unfinished was bad and had to be finished. Well, the girl and her ex had left the challenge on unfinished right before they broke up at the end of college. Skiing on the ski team meant early mornings were late afternoons or mid week days when there was some privacy in the gondola or just other team members who you might not care to finish the challenge in front of. But now on their yearly ski vacation, it was much more difficult to pull off. And her ex each year insisted they try. She acquiesced, mostly to try to get it done and over because she didn't want to cheat on her husband. She started to suspect her ex wanted to keep re-trying the challenge, but never really finish it. That was confirmed this year while the husband was there because the ex seemed especially determined to sneak it in under the husband's nose.

 

[NuclearFairy]

Oh and human stories are only gross if they revolve around feet

My only probably fully human story revolves around feet.