I met her at the Hummingbird Café.
She smiled.
I smiled.
We laughed, we danced, our hearts sang 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 Missoula, Montana. His fiction has appeared most recently in New Reader Magazine, The Bark, and fresh.ink. His novel “Gone Alaska” was recently published by Adelaide Books. His story “Ashes” appears in the Spring 2021 issue of The William and Mary Review. He teaches writing at Missoula College and is at work on a new novel.