"The Good Neighbor" by Delta (an248969@anon.penet.fi). Stories like this simply don't appear on alt.sex.stories - at least not very often. Stories like this appear in literature books, written by either Russian or German authors - or at least by European existentialists.

The plot unfolds slowly through the eyes of a man who plans to blow his brains out. Just when we realize that this man is truly despondent and plans to kill himself, there is a knock at the door and a woman enters the room. She is concerned about having lost her beauty, and she asks the man for his input. A little perturbed that this woman is interrupting his much more significant suicide for such trivial reasons, the man eventually decides that a final act of kindness will do no harm and might even make a difference to her; and so he tells her that she is beautiful. Very quickly the two find themselves preparing to make love, and the man who was about to commit suicide suddenly feels the need to use a condom and to put a robe on the floor to prevent either of them from getting floor burn. And so it goes

Who is this woman? How will life change for the two of them? This is an excellent alt.sex.STORY.