RLMFanfic

Awwwww! 😺 Thank you! I'm glad you enjoy it! I tried to put the songs in roughly the same order as they come up in the fic, so it's totally understandable that the Halloween theme is startling (as that's when the reader hears his ring tone in the lobby of her building). 🔪🎃

The rumor online is that Mike is... or at least WAS married. I guess someone on 4Chan supposedly ran a background check on him and found that he bought a three-bedroom house in Wisconsin years ago. (The thinking being that single men don't buy three-bedroom houses).

But I think he'd make a real sexy divorcee.

"...let him out of the house..." 🤨 I'll stop ya right there.

For Jay - the sexier, the singl-er. I don't make the rules.

This is how Jay looks when single:

And here's him with a girlfriend:

I don't think Jay is married, but I definitely don't think he's alone. I think he's got a long-term girlfriend that loves and supports him and that they watch Blade 2 with director's commentary every Easter Sunday. ☺️

I have a few good reasons for thinking this way:

He's gotten thicker over the last 6 years or so, but no less attractive. This leads me to believe that he's in a comfortable relationship. He's not "super trim and eating healthy day perfect hair to attract a lady" kind of sexy, but "can eat carbs now cause my girlfriend likes beer and makes great casseroles" kinda sexy.

He's got cats. Plural. Name one single man you know with two cats. You can't, it's impossible. Pussy begets pussy, my friend.

His shoes are much better now. That's a woman telling him toss those god-awful boxy-toed leather monstrosities he used to wear.

Gillian Bellringer (the delightful redhead from Feeding Frenzy and a few early Half in the Bag episodes) is raising money to rebuild her improv space after Hurricane Helene. Help her out if you want!

How do I honor Jay's birthday?

By wearing a red plaid shirt and a raccoon sweater to assemble my 12-foot skeleton, of course!

"I couldn't possibly get more turned on."

And then he went and did this, and my ovaries burst.

Hello Dash! Lovely to hear from you! I'm honored to hear I inspire you to write! WOW! Thank you!

As far as a Cherry Girl playlist, I just made one! Here's a full soundtrack for you (and anyone else interested).

The songs I reference in the story itself are:

This Must Be the Place - The Talking Heads

Tequila - The Champs

Rocket Man - Cover by William Shatner

Mr. Sandman - The Chordettes

Halloween Theme - John Carpenter

Dead Man's Party/Weird Science - Oingo Boingo

Take My Breath Away - Berlin

Pure Imagination - Gene Wilder

Pony - Ginuwine

Don't Move - Phantogram 

Hip to Be Square - Huey Lewis and the News

Power of Love - Huey Lewis and the News

If You Leave - Orchestral Maneuvers in the Dark

I also reference a lot of Tarantino movies, so I'd add some of that to the mix as well. Plus songs from horror films for the nightmare sequence, the title song from Hard Ticket to Hawaii and the Miami Connection soundtrack for the movie nights and a smidgen of music from Pink Flamingos.

If I HAD to narrow a playlist down to seven, I'd say the most important are:

This Must Be the Place - for Jay's morning alarm. I also see it playing in the reader's mind when she's alone and melancholy in the tub.

Tequila - for the embarrassing dancing at the bar scene.

Halloween Theme - Jay's ringtone 🎃

Dead Man's Party/Weird Science - for the album that the reader gives to Jay for his birthday.

Pure Imagination - the reader seeing the viewing room for the first time.

Don't Move - slow dancing in Jay's living room in wet clothes just before they... well, you know...

I read this and my balls seized up to my throat! Ha!

No. I haven't deleted my account or any of my stories. No plans to ever do that.