Flying Solo

This!

This is one of the reasons I like Ohio's tales. When he does BTB, he doesn't mess around.

5 Stars.

Liked it very much - but

I wish writers would be as creative when the husband is caught cheating. It is so often the standard cliche of the wife going out to have an affair to "get even" which is never as satisfying and only makes her a cheater too. Plenty of time for her to find a new relationship after the divorce and her new life.

lol

He hadn't gotten rich because he was stupid.She, on the other hand, was a stupid, cheating bitch since day one. She got her due.

FAMILIES DONT NEED TROPHIES

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Loved it.

There's an old saying, '' Give a dog enough rope and he will hang himself'', clearly, as in this tale, the same applies to a BITCH.

I hope she winds up in the ole Rio whore house good luck bitch.

Oohiiiiiiiioooooo! Jeez....

You are always trying to finish stories that others have written but damn man....Please finish your own!....at the very least an epilog!

Excellent BTB

Congrats. Short but excellent BTB. Four stars out of five. I would have liked to have seen a bit more emotion from Dave and something about Lucinda trying to contact him and beg for forgiveness. Or at least her reaction when she finds out she's been had. I am a bit spoiled by Jezzazz and DQS1. But I know you said it was going to be short.

When you have money....

it's always necessary to distrust (at first) any woman who seems interested in you. After testing her, if she checks out, fine and dandy but if not, you haven't lost anything. I know the romantics will say I'm a sleaze for saying that but females in general and and gold-diggers in particular are easily swayed by money. If you're a male who doesn't believe that, ask a trusted older man.
In MY world, it makes more sense in the long run to trust and verify so that your assets are protected from the get-go. After all, YOU'RE the one who worked your hands to the bone to be the success you are. Being rich is a bitch!

Funny, but

If he'd purchased millions of dollars in Jewelry, and given it to her to convince her to marry him, why did she need to steal it or the money at all? It was hers, and from before their marriage as well.
Still, like to see a cheater get theirs. But that part just didn't make sense. seems like the wife would have had no reason for all the subterfuge.

It needed an ending

I liked where you were going with the story. However I felt you left it way too early. When I got to the bottom of the page I wanted to turn to page two to see what happened and how the characters reacted when they discovered he knew.

"When you have money....

it's always necessary to distrust (at first) any woman who seems interested in you. After testing her, if she checks out, fine and dandy but if not, you haven't lost anything."

i dont agree it seems to me if your a bit smart then as a golddigger you would expect that behavior and as a woman serieusly interested wouldnt put up with it.

Well done.

A little long and detailed for true flash story but hey, the twist in the tail is neat!

@ANON - 'Funny -but'

Well, yeah, the jewelry WAS Sweetie's ... gifted to her by Hubby. But they were not in her actual possession (stupid to keep them in the house!)... and likely she had never had them appraised! So the 'paste' copies looked like the real things. Sweerie gets to South America with Very Little Cash and traveling companion has vanished! Sweetie has to think that Mr. Bull took the money and took a different flight to Panama (or Sri Lanka!). After all, Sweetie thinks Bull has a couple of million bucks in US cash! How dare he betray her!

So Sweetie goes to a reputable jeweler to cash in a $10K emerald ring and gets offered $10 bucks. After several more jewelers also tell her (and maybe loan her a loupe to show her the difference between a real emerald and her chunk of glass), she has no real means to launch an international investigation. And no proof of anything except abandoning her Hubby and being an accomplice in forgery and theft (of paste). Nope, the Sting is perfect and Sweetie will be working the 'avenidas' or the 'cantinas' within the week!

Clean and Cute. Hopefully, Hubby has learned that fluff is cute, but without substance. A great story!

Loved the Thanks Uncle Dave, that made the story great.

IF A PARTNER DOESNT KNOW ALL THEIR IN & OUT LAWS

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So if $230,000 isn't going to keep her happy for long

And she's going to fence her jewelry (who would take the jewels and give her any more than 10 cents on the dollar?) for very little as compared to value, why is she doing this? She had a great life. Why stray? Why wouldn't she plan long term? Take smaller amounts of money and squirrel it away. A nice ten year plan could set her up nicely. But this was both premature and stupid. Wasn't she supposed to be "smart"? Okay story - horrible conclusion.

Simply Loved The Ending

Thanks, Uncle Dave. One of the best story endings in a long, long time. Worthy of 5 Stars.

Nice

Stupid. The whore wife was just pathetic. How stupid can you be? I'll tell you. Stupid enough to be in a foreign country with fake jewelry, an asshole boyfriend in jail and an ironclad pre-nup if she ever got back home. Home? How about the nearest brothel? That'll work.

Well done. Loved the ending retribution.

Sounds like Rio just got a new street whore.

FUCKING BEAUTIFUL

The title to my comment says it all nice one

5*

missing

I would like to have read about her dismay, gnashing of teeth etc once she found herself destitute in a foreign country. Also would enjoy witnessing her ploting and pleading to get hubby to bail her out.

Do love it when bad people get their comeuppance.

WHAT THE FUCK

It was good, until you got lazy and just stopped the story. Obviously you have no idea what the hell a SHORT STORY is. A short story is more than one page you fucking moron. Maybe if you would have gotten past elementary school you would have learned that. No, what your sorry ass did was the same thing any other idiot with no brain does when they write. They write a brief little tale and consider it a short story and they never go over one page. If I was writing it, I would ACTUALLY PUT AN ENDING AT THE END OF THE SHORT STORY, and write a whole lot more than a brief page, because unlike you I'm not a lazy piece of shit.

Cut Short?

I don't understand the complaints about the abrupt ending.

The point was made, no need to belabor it.