Hot metal ripped through warm flesh and I shuddered and sank to the ground. Her beautiful steely blue eyes stared mockingly at me.

“That’s your last shot!” I warned.

She smiled and blew me a kiss with those sultry red lips of hers and said, “No sweetie, the last straw.”

Connell Wayne Regner was inspired by Chris Griglack’s “femme fatale” in Love At Last SIght. His other dabblings can be found at paragraphplanet and wtdmagazine.wordpress.com.