FF – Tangled
Here is my story for Friday Fictioneers, hosted by Rochelle. The photo was contributed by Victor and Sarah Potter.
I don’t even know what I’ve written this week. It’s a bit silly. Me? Silly? Surely not.
Copyright Victor and Sarah Potter
Three homes with three families. Kids all over the place, probably more he didn’t know about. Bank accounts everywhere. Identities out the wazoo – even he sometimes got confused who he was supposed to be from one day to the next.
Scamming him, conning her, no wait, she was to be family number four – or was she? Scam or marry? Or both?
How to keep everything in order?
Circles within circles. Webs cast everywhere. How long before one of those webs caught him?
The heat was on.
It’s a complicated life being a gigolo con-spider.
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draliman on life 
Reminds me of someone, but he’s more like a rat. 😀
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Heh, it does, very true 🙂
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A life I’ve always craved!
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Hey, me too!
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He sounds like the sort of guy who will always manage to wriggle his way out of any tricky situation that may arise!
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I’m sure he’s had plenty of practice at that!
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Sounds like he thrives on drama … make that dramas. He’ll be caught out sooner or later!
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Definitely. It’s all coming to a head, I think.
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Sometime ago, I responded to a photo prompt of three women taking to the manager of a restaurant with a similar story. They’d each found out they were married to the same man who had swindled them out of their money. They went looking for him.
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I’ve seen the occasional news article too – this sort of thing does happen.
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Hah! Very good and I loved the last line.
Susan A Eames at
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Thanks, I’m glad you liked it!
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“gigolo con-spider” Ha-ha-ha!! Hilarious! 🙂
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Hee 🙂 I’m glad you liked it!
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The male spider always loses in the end. Yum, yum.
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Eek! He better watch his back 🙂
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LOL wonderful take on the picture, D-Man 😀
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Thanks, I’m glad you liked it 🙂
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Hahaha… dangerous con spider!
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Hee 🙂
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What a “tangled” web he has woven.indeed! And yes, the male spider always loses, no matter how hard he tries to con his way out of it. Funny take!
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It’s all going to come crashing down…
I’m glad you liked it!
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Spider web is always thought-provoking to me. Writing a poem or story about it is quite poetic.
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There are so many ways to go, both literal and metaphorical.
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It’s definitely a question of time before he is caught and dealt with – as Tracey said: Yum yum!
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He’s living for the moment with little thought to the dire consequences… 🙂
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Which can be exhilarating. Or fatal.
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Definitely not a life for me!
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Superbly written. I could totally imagine this
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Thanks, I’m glad you liked it!
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Ha ha ha ha. That was so much fun. We had a trashy movie come out on a similar topic a couple of years back, which became a surprise hit. It was about one man who gets married to three women ‘accidentally’ (don’t ask) and keeps them on three separate floors in the same apartment building. None of them, obviously, is aware of the existence of the other two. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kis_Kisko_Pyaar_Karoon
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That sounds like a fun film! I could imagine Cary Grant in such a role.
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somehow it has to come full circle and when that happens he’s all done. i see no hope, only despair.
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There’s no way out for our spider. Sooner or later, he’s done for.
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What a tangled web he’s woven! Brilliant.
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Indeed, I’m glad you liked it!
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Fun story, Draliman.
I send prayers for him.😀
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Thanks! I expect there are a lot of people he’s swindled who are praying something nasty happens to him 🙂
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I think he may be about to spin for the last time. Nice take.
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It’s time he moved to a nice quiet corner of the world. But he always thinks he’ll get away with it…
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Poor “gigolo con-spider”! But he’ll always find his way out, I guess.
Nicely done, Ali. 😀
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He has a knack of getting out of tight scrapes. I’m glad you liked it!
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What’s a con-spider?
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It’s like a con-man/con-artist. Only a spider 🙂 I made it up!
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No wonder I didn’t find it, then! 😀 He’ll get caught in his own web some day, I’d say 😀 😀
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I think that day is fast approaching 🙂
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So if I squished him like the bug he is, I’d really be killing about ten spiders at once? Good!
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Poor spidey 😦
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Looks like Spiderman goes wrong…or just in circles…MOL 😀 Great fantasy, Draliman 😀 Pawkisses for a Happy Weekend 🙂 ❤
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Silly Spidey 🙂
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This guy is a one-man population explosion. If he’s caught he better hope the police throw him in jail quick before the women catch up with him. Good writing, Ali. 😀 — Suzanne
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Yes, he might turn himself in for his own protection 🙂
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“Oh what a tangled web we weave!” I really enjoyed your story and the twist at the end!! =)
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Thanks, I’m glad you liked it! I bet there are people out there who have tangled themselves into similar lives 🙂
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Dear Ali,
Yep….methinks he’s about to get caught in his own web. Perhaps his wives will share the feast when they eat him alive. Well done.
Shalom,
Rochelle
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Dear Rochelle,
That will be a nice shared experience for them all. They may even become friends!
I’m glad you liked it.
Ali
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Gigolo con-spider. Love that. Stupid guy, though, to think he could pull it off.
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He was a bit overconfident, methinks 🙂
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He’s going of get so unstuck one of these days. Being a con-spider, will all three wives want to eat him? Will prospective wife number 4 be allowed a bite? I’m just wondering how he/ the spoils will be divided.
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I reckon they’ll all get a portion. It’s only fair 🙂
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really cool – and the last line added extra humor – but some folks really do have a web of lies that circle – and love how that flowed from this image – nice writing D
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Yes, I occasionally read a news story about someone who has got themselves in a similar situation. Only last week a bigamist in this country was rumbled when wife number one caught a glimpse of him on TV with wife number two.
I’m glad you enjoyed my story!
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oh wow – going on TV was not a good idea when there was shenanigans in the works!
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I think it was one of those programmes where something is pulled on unsuspecting members of the public. Heh heh 🙂
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hahah – you are really witty draliman
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🙂
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Super twisted ending. Fun story
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Thanks, I’m glad you liked it!
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Silly, indeed! 😉
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🙂
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Gigolo con-spider! 😂
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🙂
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Ha! What a tangled web! Great story 🙂
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Thanks, I’m glad you liked it!
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Ha… sometimes I feel that some predators will catch themselves in the end.
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This one certainly will. It’s all gone out of control.
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