One more, then I’m done, he thinks.

Across the bar, she fiddles with her napkin. She catches his eye, smiles ever so slightly, then looks away. Is it part of her craft or a fleeting connection? Maybe both.

Just one more.

He slides the safety off and orders another whiskey.

Dr. Adrian Cook is a fine arts and English professor, a husband, a dad, a dungeon master, a cub master, and a master grilled cheese chef. You can find him fighting his cats for control of the keyboard pretty much any time he sits to actually, you know, write.