Vacillation

After deciding that he was impossible to live with, she kicked him out.

She could no longer stand his deceit. He was an unashamed storyteller who quite often found himself believing his own fantasies. Now, out on the street and homeless, he managed to scrape together enough loose change to buy a one-way coach trip to another town. There, he found work as a dishwasher in a restaurant, next door to a pub. It was in there, going in for a beer afterwork, that he amazed the locals, and anyone who cared to listen, with his descriptions concerning his recent trauma along with his terrible loss.

Although he didn’t like to talk about it, he explained that his beloved wife had recently died in a fire that burnt his house to the ground. Pressed for more details, several drinkers were told about how he’d gone back into the house three times to rescue her, and how each time he had been driven back by the flames. These conversations had given him a much-admired hero status. This led to most clients regarding him as a celebrity. A good number of patrons would arrive mid-evening and wait for his shift to end so they could buy him a drink.

Meanwhile, back in the town he’d come from, the travelling salesman who purchased a new pair of shoes from the store where the rascal’s ex-girlfriend worked, was told the true story. She was only too quick to tell him how she sent the rotter on his way. He had known both her and her ex-partner for several years and had never liked him!

Shortly after this encounter, the salesman found himself eating in the very restaurant where the fantasist worked. After the meal, he was on his way to the toilet when he spotted the con artist in the kitchen.

Now, it came to pass that only moments later, despite it being seemingly farfetched, which it probably is, the traveller, found himself standing outside the pub. Despite it being only early evening, he found himself vacillating.

Knowing that he had an early start the next morning, he was weighing up whether to pop in for a quick drink before turning in for the night…

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