Mixed Cocktails: A Meeting of Minds — Bill Rayburn

Six famous Americans pair off for a night of drinks, finger food, sentimentality, caustic humor and reminiscing.

Robert Redford & Paul Newman
Robert B. Parker & John D. MacDonald
(Spenser & Travis McGee)
Barack Obama & George W. Bush

Three stories, fantasies really. What if these people had been able to spend an evening together without interruption? Over cocktails and appetizers, in a conversational world without limits, what would they have said?

*The first story involves very real-life friends who may have actually had such an evening, though no one has admitted to such.

**Next I fantasize over what might have transpired had two great American Mystery writers connected for such an evening.

***And the last story involves two former presidential rivals sharing an evening and discovering they may actually like each other. Or is it the booze?