I was sitting in my office cleaning my .38 when in she walked. High heels. Legs for miles. Lipstick.

“You Mickey Lewis?”

“That’s what the sign says, sugar.”

I cracked a deck of Luckies, dug out a jug of Jack.

Lousy time to be cleaning a gun. She shot first.

Bradley Harris is a Canadian freelance writer and editor. He is a two-time winner of the 3-Day International Novel competition, with ‘Ruby Ruby’ (Anvil Press: 1999) and ‘Thorazine Beach’ (Anvil Press: 2013). He loves and lives with his wife Liz Deeley and their fictitious dog Webley in Memphis, Tennessee. He despises and refuses to live with semicolons.