Gavin Broom, our first Scottish contributor, brings us a story of a young man who wants to impress a young lady in a unique way. Broom has a great knack at creating multiple tensions within a story and uses the limitations of his characters to appeal to his readers.

The son of a Russian immigrant works at a pet store is the setting. Jesse Waters takes us into this blue collar world and shows us the American dream of the next generation being better off than the last. Then an ominous man enters the pet store... a great story.