Amusing if embarrassing confession. When I first looked at this what I noticed first wasn’t the long legs, the hip-hugger jeans, the bare midriff, the cleavage or the pretty face (though that list proves I noticed them all right…)

No, what I saw was a recently-fired pistol, with a live round up the spout because the slide hadn’t locked back on empty, and a Finger On The Bang Switch. Bad trigger discipline! Naughty trigger discipline!

It shows what researching for fiction that’s not sword-and-sorcery will do to a writer’s perception. :-/