“What happened to you, Hank? You’re soaking wet.”

“I got caught in a flash flood.”

“In the middle of a dry spell on a sunny day?”

“Yep. I was in Wilson’s furniture store when a cowboy came in shopping for a waterbed. He plum forgot to take off his spurs.”

John H. Dromey has had short fiction published in Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, Betty Fedora, Stupefying Stories Showcase, and elsewhere.