Nikolai felt the hairs on the back of his neck bristle…like they had so many times before. He was in no danger now, but he wondered….. Shaking it off, he entered the club along with the crowd that had been milling around outside. Returning to his place at the bar he lit another cigarette…thinking… feeling something draw his gaze to the left. What he spied made the hairs on his neck bristle again. It was an apparition, with golden tresses slithering down her back.


“Aha”, he thought, “Now I know.”


Feeling his pulse quicken, his senses sharpen like a puma on the hunt, Nikolai realized….It had been a long time since he had enjoyed the company of a woman.


“Slow down brother,” he said to himself, “You’re going to burn a hole through her if you keep staring like that.”