He asked if it was her card, knowing it wasn’t. He’d fumbled the shuffle, and now his hands were shaking even more than before.

But when he met her eyes, she was smirking. “I liked the little spin move at the end.”

An eternity passed. He found himself smirking back.

Anoop Bhat is an aspiring roboticist and a causal parkour artist. One day he hopes to see a robot doing parkour alongside him.