Nate grimaced as he entered the darkened room of a small-town watering hole. Seemingly everyone in a fifty-mile radius had crammed themselves into the establishment, filling up the tables surrounded with chairs and nearly all the stools at the bar. If that wasn’t enough, loud music blared from speakers bracketing the ends of a stage situated front and center in the room. That, he could live with. It was the horrendous singing which hurt his ears and made his inner moose demand an about-face and march out in protest.
Just wonderful. I drove all the way here to get away from all the stress for a while only to land right smack in the middle of karaoke night.
His shoulders fell as he glanced across the room and debated his next option. A recently cleared stool at the bar made the decision fo
