He stands by the entrance, dreaming. Smouldering.

He started coming here twenty years ago, when the film studio was up and coming. Like him.

He took a job at the diner nearby. Just till he was spotted.

His break over, he goes back to work. Undiscovered, for one more day.

Brian Maycock’s stories have recently appeared in Trembling with Fear, Paragraph Planet and 101 Words. He lives in Glasgow.