I met her at the Hummingbird Café.

We smiled, we laughed, our hearts sang, danced and spun about the room.

We shared our stories, our loves, our dreams.

Then her phone rang.

A pause.

Yes.

No.

And then—without warning, without any explanation—she flew away from the Hummingbird Café.

Dave Barrett lives and writes out of Montana. His fiction has appeared most recently in New Reader, Weber Journal and Camas–the Nature of the West. He teaches writing at Missoula College.