Ron Carlson's "In Old Moab" (short story, non-genre): Description of a robbery that never happened

Playboy stories tend to be generally better than this one! There is no sanity in its ending.

Story summary.

A man enters a bar called "The Canyan Club" alone late evening in a town called Moab somewhere in the US, with a pistol & with the intention to rob. As his bad luck would have it, instead of finding the bar deserted, some 50 women choose to enter it then - foiling his plans.

Story is narrated by a bystander who meets the would be robber in bar. In a bizarre ending, after telling the narrator about his failed plan, the would be robber shoots himself dead!

Fact sheet.

First published: Playboy (US), May 2008.
Rating: C