Mr. Jack was complaining at his shop again as he couldn't understand why the boys in the town never paid their credit. A habit that was putting him in debt, and though it cost him to remain open he opened every day. Mr. Jack loved selling and greeting customers, he enjoyed telling stories to his overseas friends who would visit now and then. He would brag and exaggerate his profits as he would serve them with his most expensive brand of whiskey from under the counter. They had no reason to doubt him as his life seemed impressive.
His wife Margaret didn't know how much longer she could keep up with this charade and pretend like all was well,when their books showed huge debt. She went to town and returned in the evening with a well sort plan as to what Jack should do to deliver them from their bad debt.
She had spoken to Lucy earlier, her childhood friend and one of the towns most successful entrepreneurs, Lucy and her husband had nine businesses between them. It was in conversing about life and things that Suzanne broke down and told her friend about how they were a few months away from their shop being shut down by the bank.
In despair she begged Lucy to tell her her secret of how she had become successful almost over night. Lucy took her to a small room in the back of her salon and quietly told her the secret.
After she spoke to Jack she handed him a paper with the exact instructions of what to do. He didn't know whether to laugh or believe his wife to be mad but with the tears in her eyes he knew she was telling the truth.
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TALES OF THE MOUS
Short StoryA mans debt drives him to make a deal with a dark creature that could cost him his life.
