All Comments on 'The Bank'

for some in spades and others with hearts. TK U MLJ LV NV

At it's best This story had elements of the esteemed, above mentioned Elmore Leonard thriller. There was real potential with the ruthless bank robber, hot deputy, bored wife/ bank teller. Note the omission of Mr. Wonderful husband - virtually a ( tired )staple of Stang's stories.

Too much narrative was given to the deluded, Jerry Springer-esque cheating wife. She was good for initial comic relief but didn't deserve what seemed like five chapters. With characters like this - LESS IS MORE.

In addition, the hot deputy & the husband got together waaaay too fast. The bank robber could have been the strongest character had he not been made so irredeemable ( think George Clooney rogue-type) .

There would have been much more suspense if the wife's IQ was about 20-30 points to make her a challenge instead of a round heeled slut. There could have been a hall of fame Loving Wives thriller story here.

Stang gave way and indulged his pet themes of 1) 2 good to be true husband 2) cheating slut wife who whines ad nauseam for " one more chance " & who is the only one who doesn't realize that ship has sailed. 3) cheated on hubby finds new true love 3 seconds after sperm dries on slut wives pubis from illicit tryst.

Having said all of the above , I still gave this story 4 stars. This author will be unstoppable with his gifts of humor & ability to give multiple, disparate characters POV. It's a matter of allowing nuance & not allowing private demons to dominate story after story.

Top notch story very well written. Thanks.

LordSlamdawg though I agree with you, why not write your own story. The analysis you did on this one is enough to start your own story. I am not much of a writer but SS06, as much as I enjoy your stories, the reccuring themes are begining to make your stories monotonous.

I guess we have to remember that artists have to make many drafts before doing the final copy, but it is true that the personalities are always the same.... You should try to do a conniving cheating husband with an innocent Southern Belle who discovers who he really is and becomes a demon from Hell!

That said, I have to add that I really liked the Sheriff and his deputy.... and enjoyed the story.

Too many characters rambling on about too many things doesn't make a story better, complex or thrilling.

All the characters were extreme (and not in an interesting way) like

the evil villain who has no redeeming quality,

the really dumb cheating wife without an ounce of wit,

the new lover that the husband notices even before he suspects his wife so that there is no need to even look for a new interest,

the all too perfect husband ala Dudley-Do-Right,

the Sheriff Andy Taylor with his gosh darn Barney Fifes at hand.

A tightly written 3 pager might have been a better option.

I really like most of your stories. The formula you tend to use works for me. I really like the ones where the bitch gets burned at the end. If I were you, I'd tell my critics to kiss my ass.

Yup! It was long, but it flowed nicely. I enjoyed the different characters each telling their part of the story, it made the Angela segments that much more scary. Looking into the mind of crazy Angela made her seem a lot less of a WACC and more like a WACKO. Very unsettling seeing her distorted reasoning, and total disregard of reality. She pretty much became the focus of the whole story, even though she wasn't a very nice person, and it was difficult for me to have any sympathetic feelings towards her character. Her only redeeming quality was banana titties,my first "love" had banana titties, and I think they are sexy as hell!!!

"Because Angela really isn't that bad," said Tanya. "I can understand her and how she feels."

this is joke right? Angela went to jerry the guys she KNEW used her sexy=ually emotionally in every possible way... to get him to KILL Tanya.

But Angela isnt that bad?

this is a joke right ?

The only flaw with this story is the constant shifting of POV, but it does work better than a third-person narrative to keep the necessary level of tension. And thank you for sparing us an alternative ending scenario where the husband wimps out and takes the scheming bitch back.

but certainly worth the time needed to read it. A great story - thanks for sharing!

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I REALLY enjoyed reading this. I thinks it's one of your best, StangStar. I actually gave it 5 stars.

One of your best stories... the last one was so different it did not fit in.

Great story

Much better than the last one and, perhaps the best one you have ever written.

Very good story. Thanks a lot for your effort and keep up the awesome work! ^__^

Just when I think I've read the best you could possibly do, you go and prove me wrong. This story was near perfect. The whole thing was well written and the ending was fabulous. At the beginning I was worried that you had set us up for a bad ending, but you made it work out quite nicely. The characters were very well drawn and one could not help but pull for a couple who were made for each other. Thanks for yet another sterling effort!

... why the editors on this site didn't put a great big freakin' 'E' next to this, surrounded by a little green square! Outstanding, Sir, well done! T_F

Stang is head and shoulders above any other author posting here. His tales are so far beyond the normal trash in Literotica that they should pay him to keep at least one good author so readers keep coming back. There's the garbage posting in LW, and then there is Stang. Thank God.

You seem to have a adopted a different style - it works. Great story. well written

I'm in the minority but i didn't like it. Stang reused his usual characters with usual effect. Clueless, cheating wife with an I.Q. of 50, amazing and completely unbelievable husband and the second wife with a heart of gold and damn near model qualities and a divorce system that punishes cheating wives. All that was missing was a theme song and a wicked step mother

But ii grew out of fairy tales a long assed time ago. In reality, hubby would have lost most of his assets to his cheating wife and become his cell mates bitch in the crowbar hotel. Sorry Stang, but this one was boring, predictable and totally forgettable

I gave it a four star rating. The reason i dint give it a 5 star rating as, a) it was too long. b) i would have wanted more revenge on the bitch.

That said, the fact remains that stang is a writer par excellence. The humour is good, the style of writing -entertaining. Keep writing more you rock stan but do please make it more darker in a category of cheating wifes. This should be done for men who deserve it.

Very compelling story and intriguing characters. The only one I really was confused by was the wife. Seems like very small motivation to cheat in the first place, especially considering the size of the town. Even less motivation for her to continue...so you would figure that ultimately she would be thrilled when her husband asks for a divorce. Still, I certainly can relate to situations that just snowball out of control.

Oh, by the way, a NEW Mustang? I was quite shocked.

Great story, SS06. I'd blown the bastard away but I'd added a second clip. Keep up the great writing.

SS06 has done it again! Man what a great story and you get all Six Stars and out of five that ain't bad. Thanks for sharing this with us.

Another great contribution from a great writer. No need to critique the story: strong guy, a wife who at least for a while went bat shit stupid, humor and a happy ending. Thanks for the tale and I will look for your next offering as I always do.

Stang you've done it again. I don't know how you can keep publishing such great, well written stories one after another but always do. Keep it up!

Absofuckinglutely fantastic. I agree with your decision to publish this all at once. Please keep writing as your stories are fantastic!

Good characters, good ending.....just a fun to read story.

... mostly.

I don't see any redeeming sense of humor, and the characters are all two dimensional stereotypes: the hardworking but dumb husband, the wife just waiting for the chance to screw up, the angelic woman waiting in the wings to pick up the pieces, and the bad guy who persuades the wannabe slut wife to act out.

I read the story - skipping over a lot of paragraphs that looked like all the others - hoping that something - anything - would be different. Maybe the rescuing angel would have a flaw. Maybe the dumb but hard working husband would have feet of clay. Maybe the wife's complaints would be acknowledged - NOPE

Two stars for grammar and spelling None for originality

Save for the fact that dude's car won the race against cars that spit bosses out, I can't complain about this story. Loved the rapid lead poisoning for jerry/rod. Nice to know others don't shy away from redrum. Five *

[obligatory gripe: There's a handful of writing flaws. Okay, done with that part.]

Great story concept, excellent plot development, delightful entertainment.

Well me being a car guy I just love how you always mix that into your stories. Keep up the good work!

Is how someone can write this much and not improve. I'd also like to know if SS is aware of just how wooden and one-dimensional his prose is, or does he believe all the glowing reviews?

It's just sad how many broken men find solace in these vengeance stories.

It's really amazing that there is a certain crowd of readers who as long as the wife is either killed, imprisoned, or sold to a Mexican whorehouse by the end, think anything is a great story!

The wife, as portrayed, is a certifiable psycho. I can't believe that any husband would miss that for years on end (I had a friend whose wife was also a raving lunatic and she frightened him half-to-death). And she is so obsessively in love with him that she starts, and continues for over a month (???) to screw some stranger who doesn't even give her good sex.

Hey, I was amused by the story, but it was difficult to enter into that zone of the suspension of disbelief in which could take any of the characters seriously. I read it all the way through, so it gets 5* from me despite its shortcomings.

Thanks for writing — which most readers don't.

3 chapters ok but that's it.

The devil baby bit was funny. Gonna' have to keep an eye on that one. Some say SS writes the same thing over and over and that his characters are cardboard cutouts. I disagree. He has written a wide variety of stories. Occasionally the man will take the broad back and sometimes the projectiles fly. The only thing they have in common is the wife usually does not get away with it. How much information do some readers need? In reality many people are just cardboard cutouts anyway. They do the same thing everyday the way that they have done it for years. The ending was a surprise. Sneaky. I have been telling people that they have brown eyes for years. :)

I guess you can't please everyone.. I liked the storyline....Sure hot cars help but I'm a

GM man...As always I'm waiting for the next one...Don

I don't doubt there are people that frigging stupid in this word - heck I know some. What I don't buy is husband living with her so many years without picking up on it. The snowballing explaination offered at the end was a nice try but sounded weak to me....still one of your better stories.

you go from best to worst in the span of a week. your prievious story "if i could turn back time" was one of the best i have ever read on literotica.you could see and feal the characters in that story.it had so much originality and basic emotion.you showed a masterful hand at creating some realy memerable characters.but then what do you do?you go from character building to chartaracter recycling,"the bank"is a carbon copy of 90% percent of your other stories.your leading male character is another white knight like most of your others.the only real diference is the character's name.the plot is another recycled hack job.did you actually read this story after you wrote it???look at your concept of love..its like a switch.its on,something happens."click"its off.that isnt really a concept as much as it is a convieneance.i could go on but i wont,,the bottom line is you have alot of talent and have writen some real gems.the bad news is you have to sift through a mountain of horse crap to get to those gems

Cinco Estrellas, Hermano! I think it is your best story!

This was probably your best story yet! I once used the comparison of the immortal left-hander, Sandy Koufax in discussing your abilities as a writer. Well, this time you pitched a perfect game in the seventh game of the Series. Thanks for all you do SS06.

I can't agree with all your loyal fans. I gave up after ready about half of it. Just way too wordy. I saw whole paragraphs that could be deleted and never missed. Little to no character development.

Good, Dumb, What. BUT TOO FUCKING LONG. GET TO THE FUCKING POINT. GET A FUCKING LIFE Stang, get out from the front of your computer.

Overall, ok story. A little long, too much unnecessary fill, to little sex. This is lerotica, right. Case in point, Lucas and Tanya's first time woulda been more than fitting, I was looking for it. I would have liked to know how he got around to going down on her, not what kind of brakes brought the car to a halt.(s.f.w.) In the end, the only character I really liked was Steve, the rest of them were pretty much fucked up. I really don't like Lucas, don't know why. Each is own. I will be checking out some of your other work, please keep writing .

Needed to be this length to fully develop the story - great one by the way. Looking forward to your next one!

Hey, You do good work. If the "analomous's' of the world don't like. DON'T READ IT DIPWADS!

Good Tale!

A little long but well worth the time. I will say one thing I have read almost all of your stories and I have never seen a female character with less redeeming qualities than Angela. Almost to the point of being over the top but a well written piece non the less.

Very nice work - thanks for sharing!

This was excellent, as is all of your stories.

Great story.

An exceptional storyline, with sub-plots that made the story even more exciting.

Stang-man you must be some sort of a story wizard, to be able to come up with so many good stories.

I'm glad you posted it all in one chaper, even though it was a long story I enjoyed the whole read.

Thanks for the good story

Very good; a trifle long. Lordslamdawwg makes some good observations--but I give it a plus 5 with no qualms.

I'm like your stories but all are similar to each other where wife becomes Cheater for change i would like you to make husband mistake and come back

I have often complained that the wives in LW stories are too dumb to make the stories interesting enough. Angela is no different. She is unrelentingly STUPID! The story is long and it almost completely revolves around her stupidity. The snippets of the bank robbery are minor pieces. Further, you change the POV to jump into her head. It's agonizing to be there. You can hear the empty echos. We have to read page after page of her incoherent ramblings.

I'm sorry but I don't think you can build a good story around a vacuous character. You never really flesh out the other characters. Lucas is the good husband shuffling through the story cranking out machine parts. Tanya is the hot ass deputy. Is she any good at her job or just in the story for the body comments? She has big tits. No, really big tits! We also have the sheriff of Hicksville who drops in to interrogate Angela now and then. After 11 pages they are all still pretty 2 dimensional. The only one we know enough about to expect more of is Angela but she is too stupid and self absorbed to be worth knowing.

I had bad feelings about Angela's character to begin with but when she thinks "Lucas won the race much as I'd expected. I ran over to him with the rest of the crowd. He saw me and turned away from me. It actually hurt me. I'd never done anything to hurt him so I wondered what the hell was wrong with him." I knew she was useless. Done nothing to hurt Lucas? Wow.And that was only the 2nd page. It got worse from there.

Write less words. Think about an interesting story and vivid characters more.

Thank you SS and MTB for another enjoyable read.

Wow I really loved this story! FORGET what the critics say: there IS something different about this story. It comes from a completely different background to many of your other stories. You actually talk about some of the issues in married life! Separate finances, how the wife thinks and feels about her job and her husband, and many other things.

You even include humour such as the about-to-be-ex-wife saying she didn't give up her body so easily, and the sheriff saying that having established that she immediately gave herself up to Jerry he would like the rest of the facts. Come on, guys! How can you not notice this stuff? You are too .... jaded by your own lives and reading tooooooo much of this genre that you're skipping all the good stuff!

You know all the people complaining about it seeming like it's monotonous have been reading LovingWives stories for far too long too frequently. It's a good genre, but it's actually something you should take in small doses! ;-] I do agree that personalities are usually the same or similar but that is the point of it! Or isn't it...? Be honest, people, we are all guilty of over-reading sometimes, PARTICULARLY Romance or LovingWives! (Take your pick.)

On a related note, it would be really interesting if you wrote about a man who was not financially wealthy nor related nor married to anyone wealthy, at any point in time in a story... I wonder what you would come up with then! =] Including or not including a Mustang in a story would be an option, as a small challenge.

I would like to tell you that I particularly love it when you put in humour (as in Billie Jean), twists and turns, and many other plot devices, but I think you could work a little more on Romance, and I know you're good at it; the reason I'm telling you this is because writing too many LovingWives stories could get boring and seem repetitive. Writing for a slightly different genre can be very refreshing. I have sometimes written feedback to you on StoriesOnline but I like that reviews here can be public; thank you for writing, hoping to read more soon!

An ever-faithful reader,

Yuri

StangStar06 does it again and again, bravo. If critics want to read something really drab with pussy-whipped hubby trashing, look elsewhere. We need more authors to write about sluts who think they can get away with cuckolding but get their comeuppance in the end.

Good as with all your stories but not your best by far .

Went on a little to long when there was no need .

No need for evrey character to tell the same part of the storyline.

4 *

I think some of the commentors don't understand that writing a story is difficult and an author only improves by writing. I love the anon comments from people who may not be able to do a grocery list. The comments by people who have actually done stories and have them posted somewhere I take more seriously. Keep up the good work and notice how many views you have. Many people enjoy your efforts.

...and there are really only a handful of authors who take the time to give us more than one. We can get the view that Angela was terribly naive and self-centered, from some of the things she said, in her conversations with Lucas. But we couldn't see just how pathetically warped her "world-view" was, without Stang letting us see things from inside her mind.

The only side Stangster left out, in all of this, was Tanya's - and I'd have LOVED a peek inside that cute little brain!

Thanks, Stang, for another outstanding story!

That was a llloonng story. good though.

I have been occasionally reading these stories for several years. Enjoyed this one so much that I even read some of the feedback. I disagree that it was to long. I wish more stories were uploaded that were as long. In fact I wish it took another couple of days to finish. The story line intrigued me and I constantly wanted to know what would happen next. Having spent a brief part of my engineering career writing technical manuals I can only imagine how time consuming it must be to turn out something this long and well done. I bookmarked your author page and look forward to reading more of your work. THANK YOU

Again you have shown that you are one of the best writers on this site. Please continue. Don't be like DKS.

Star rights some great stories. However the female character this time belies believe. Wondering if he really just hates women. Ok I've met women who have fooled around but never of this kind of character, I'd like to think its not just because I'm lucky, maybe some do exist. and 50 years really seems a bit extreme as his punishments often do

You can take a 4 cyl mustang pony II built on a pinto frame and make it into a 600+ hp Shelby .great read love it all at once .The main character seams to be p whiped but grew a set when he needed to. The commenter that said the wife was not well developed may have a point ,but not much of one. It is obvious she had mental issues for longer than our hero realized . The husband was blind to his wife faults until the he saw her with her lover , at that point we knew all that was nessary of her character!

It really didn't need to be THAT long, and I agree with one of the other comments, you must really hate women, you make ALL of your female characters stupid. And yes I included Tanya with that comment on page ten about Angela not being that bad. That just put her right up there with Angela.

@ Dear Anon Majority of SS06's stories are Fables. The majority of the SS06's fable stories talk about a message if kind woman you are a average wife and your husband is a good and simpatethic husband (with balls) your most important value is the FIDELITY, because you will be changed very quickly ...........

She managed attempt murder on Tanya, I think 50 years with half time after 25 years parole for good behavioral in the prison it is a perfect verdict, but SS06 did not write about the parole oportunity.

This story is one of your best although I would have named it "The Bank Job." In the end Angela also wanted to get back at Lucas for bringing her to that small town and terrible job otherwise why did she have to carry on with Jerry after that first time she cheated? Thanks for a great story!

But at least as good -

I enjoyed all of the twists, and there were plenty of those heh.

Angela was one twisted sister! Her thought processes were painfully consistent and self deluded right up until she shared it all with the Lucas and Tanya. Her lack of any real conscience was fascinating. Nicely thought out, most real people have more facets to their personality than she did but it represented a great learning opportunity heh.

As always I appreciate your time and energy which you have shared with us -

Long and I liked it! Thanks

This story was good, as is usual with your stories. A little long, but still, all in all, very entertaining.

However, once again you brought gunplay into it and got some of your facts wrong. You said you put the clip and cocked it to get a round into the chamber. That sounds a bit like a semi-automatic pistol. In that type of handgun you put a magazine (not a clip) with rounds in it into the well of the gun, usually the handle. Then you rack the slide back and let it go back forward which is the action that puts a round in the chamber and simultaneously "cocks" it and gets it ready to fire. Some semi-autos do have actual hammers that can be cocked and de-cocked. But just putting a mag in and then cocking the hammer back will not load a round into the chamber.

A clip by the way, is a stripper clip that has rounds on it that you then insert one specific end into the breech of certain rifles and pressing down on the rounds thereby loading the internal magazine in the rifle. That action also does not "cock" the rifle.

Also, shooting someone from vehicles moving at speeds over 80-100mph would be a one in a 500,000 shot. So, basically it would be almost impossible to hit a target not once but twice.

First the sniper story and now this....lol.

Maybe your best. At least, in your top 5.

SS06--

Thanks for another wonderful read. I was a little concerned that you were developing too much compassion for Angela toward the end, but that wasn't the case at the end. Thanks again, and be assured, I'll be looking forward to your next one for us!

Just out of this world story with most wonderful sense of humor. It couldn't be any better. Apart from couple typos this is perfect.

make her a cheating bitch but at least give them a brain. still gave u a 5.

His wife gets a "straight" 50 year sentence after plea bargaining? Horse shit! First off there was no way to get a conviction on her involvement in the bank robbery. The only thing to plea bargain was her aiding in the escape and assault on the deputies, including the one who was drugged. With a plea bargain, with parole, she would be looking at actually serving anywhere from 5-10 years. Probably 6. This was a sloppy and inexcusable error on the author's part.

.. all the women in your stories are based off of ONE woman. besides the looks, and how they go about cheating, they are very similar to each other. they're all kind of stupid, or lacking in some department, and they're all SOOO regretful and unwilling to let go of the husband. so you must have had a bad experience with one woman and tried to think of how many different ways you could get rid of her while getting an upgrade in the process.

i'm not saying this is a bad thing, but maybe you should switch it up a little, make a devious, extremely intelligent while still kinda good woman who loves her husband get caught cheating, and every attempt to get him back is foiled by an outside source like luck or some entity. just saying.

11 pages is an awfully long story. Still, I stuck with it thru 8, then skipped to the end to get the punch line.

Perhaps Stang took too much upon himself trying to put out a story a week. Extend the time, shorten the stories through good editing, and he'll be much better off. A lot of good writing with way too much filler. Sometimes you've gotta know what to cut.

And as others have said, there is a sameness to his cheating wives stories.

1) Wifely stupidity seems to be standard-issue, but that real stupidity never seems to show itself until the marriage is many years old. Then wifey seems to get degenerative dumb-down disease.

2) The wifes are generally plain women who only the husband sees as beautiful. Initially that was a good thing, because most of the cheating wives on this site make Marilyn Monroe look like Twiggy. But if you re-use the same idea over and over again, eventually it, too becomes redundant, old, and yes, boring.

3) Like many other LW stories, there always seems to be a much more beautiful (but faithful) younger woman waiting to throw herself at Hubby. Does this happen a lot in real life?

It's a good story that went on too long. This is constructive criticism, because Stang is one of the better relatively new writers on the site. It would be nice to seem his stories reach their full potential.

Demon child.... Lol.... This is one of my favorite stories.... I love the length , the characters, the plot..... It was funny as hell & it had a little bat shit crazy bitch in there... I absolutely loved this story.. Of course I had to give it a 5 wish I could give it 20...

It's a Grand Slam.

Very good read. Some people are complaining about the length, but I don 't get why they can't split the story in segments. People don't need to read the story in one read.

And I enjoyed it this time around.

But alas I had to give it only 3 stars.

Simply put it is not an erotic story. This site is for erotic stories. I gave it three for the high degree of writing. The best on this site. If it was an erotic story I would give it a 5. But it is non-erotic so I cant justify a 5 for this site.

or accept consequences or outcomes, TK U MLJ LV NV

"Simply put it is not an erotic story. This site is for erotic stories."

I wonder who put that "Non-Erotic" section in then?

That was sarcasm in case you couldn't tell.

but Angela was painted as too dumb to be believable. (IMHO)

I love how the commentators whining about how unfair it is to their miniscule attention spans, having to read more then 3 or 4 pages of text, Are the ones who write the longest commentaries, I suspect their Instructor is Duna and the class TA is Dwornock.

I love how the 'Stangman some how uses the exact same dumbass characters, consistently committing the exact same screwups in each and everyone of his stories, while yet SS06 creates so many clever and freshly entertaining stories.

And all the infantile tantrums over editing and spelling and grammar. To quote myself

'Academic English is as futile an attempt to avoid human communication, it has been mankind’s misfortune to endure, since Neo-Confucianism. Noah Webster was a premature fascist and Thomas Dewey a proto-nazis.'

StangStar, you are a Master Sir.

Damn long...but well worth the read.

Good work.

I have to concur with the others regarding the vapid cheating wives in your stories. It's a far to often recurring theme in your writing.

Also, you're probably the only male I've encountered who actually likes the asymmetrical haircut. Very few women look good in that style, and it always appears to me that the stylist got distracted of is completely blind. It is not a flattering hairstyle.

To the ones that are gripping about how dumb the cheating spouse is in the stories, anyone who cheats on someone that loves them is dumber than a box of rocks.To do something like that is really stupid.They may get away with it for a while,but some mistake will trip them up at some point.Most who read these stories want the cheater to be caught and punished in some way,so why complain when you read about what you want to happen.

... This was to long, to repetitive and unbelievable. It seemed as though SS06 was purposely making the story long by repeating it without adding new information. It was a disappointing read. Panther Fan.

I had to break into several reading sessions but it was worth it. I don't understand those who complain about long stories. You warned us from the start and you can always scroll to the bottom of the page to see how many pages it runs. In fact, I think some of your longer stories allow for better character development and storyline. This one ranks with your best.

She hates her job and "her husband doesn't realize it."

Did it ever occur to her to tell him?

I knew I'd have to stop, but it was also wrong to give your word and then go back on it. I'd promised Jerry that I'd meet him tomorrow and I knew what was going to happen. I decided that tomorrow would be the last time."

Let's see, it's WRONG to go back on your word, but cheating on you husband isn't?

And I've said this before, but why, why, WHY, if it's over, why do it one "last time?"

Re Student Loans - Just because the house and business were in husband's name, why wouldn't he help pay off her student loans? And I don't know what lead tellers make, but unless she was very careless with her money I find it hard to believe that she was "barely keeping up with er loan payments."

She complains about Ted saying she looked "nice" instead of "hot, pretty or sexy".

Telling her she looks "hot" or "sexy" is a good way to getting charged with sexual harassment. Even "pretty" is pushing it!

She has a "right" to cheat because her husband shuts her off? First, she's ALREADY cheating, and she herself says that she wouldn't accept that excuse if roles were reversed.

Finally, I realize she was at least a little psycho, but did she really believe that:

a) she'd get away with helping Jerry escape, and

b) that Lucas would turn to her if Tanya died? Even if he didn't blame her for Tanya's death, there were plenty of other women in town who would be glad to kick Angela to the curb for a chance at Lucas!

Uh...KarenE, remember this is just a story? It was all fictional, as in imaginary. None of it actually happened. 'She' doesn't really exist.

In the original Yiddish, "Man plans, God laughs" is a rhyming proverb: Mann tracht und Gott lacht. A common rhyming translation is "Man proposes and God disposes."