Will Garthwaite

A care-free woman walking her dog, encounters a care-worn man digging a hole in the middle of the woods. Despite her vulnerability and his unexplained excavation, the pair hit it off; sharing an appreciation of semantics, and Ancient greek culture. Both man and woman are momentarily transported to a simpler time and place, their hearts a flutter. Only Sophocles, the dog, remains unpersuaded.

The woman is awoken from her mid-afternoon suburban slumber by the arrival of an attractive young man over her garden fence. The man is being chased by the police and begs the woman to hide him, which much to her own surprise, she does. The police come and go leaving them alone at the back door, the sexual chemistry between them is as clear as day and were it not for an arrival at the front door things may have progressed further. The woman has a daughter and relations are at an all time low. However, the situation becomes even more strained when the girl brings a man back one night, the very same man from over the garden fence just days before. Despite their shock, the young man and the woman keep their cool maintaining the illusion that they have never met, evidently there is unfinished business they need to attend to.

Adam leaves his small seaside town for London to fulfill his dream as a musician and hopefully find a special someone to share the experience with, but what he discovers is far more important than he imagined, leading him back home, by the sea. —Tamura, Kerry