{…excerpted from a longer piece which first appeared in Gloom Cupboard…}

At the time, it seemed like the ideal moment to make my move.

It’s not every day I find myself engaged in rapt conversation with a beautiful woman fifteen years younger than myself; her eyes fixed on mine with an intensity suggesting more than a passing interest.

Smoothly, coolly, nonchalantly, I said, “We should get together sometime. Like, go somewhere. Or something”…

Read the rest at The Short Humour Site…