Tomorrow's Vig

High Ball

Watercolor painting of a high ball glass with a brown spirit under an ice cube and an old man's hand grasping it on a bartop.

The ice ricochets in my glass and I can feel my pulse flit. Anyone with younger eyes would’ve seen mine widen. It’s beyond Pavlovian now. And I like it. When that light brown, liquid sweetness touches my lips, its entire chemical makeup gets deconstructed in my mind. Every note of its aging; every facet of […]