If You Dare (Wicked Wednesday & Friday Flash)

I actually started this last week as a combined post for Wicked Wednesday and Friday Flash, but the best-laid plans of mice and men and all that. The Before/After theme should be obvious, I think, but you might be wondering what this has to do with a man lightly holding a full wine glass.

Well, apart from a few wine coolers in my twenties, I've never been a drinker. I know, a writer who doesn't imbibe—shocking! There's no sad, dark story there, I just never liked it and all it did was make me...