Just Until Morning

Rural 17, eleven at night. A new attendant drives in through the fog to take the night shift at a 24-hour gas station an hour from anywhere, finds a note from whoever worked the shift before, and turns the sign to OPEN. Through the night the customers thin out, the desk phone starts ringing with a caller who knows where the attendant is standing, and the four security cameras begin to show people who are not on the forecourt when the attendant goes out to look. A stranger arrives at the door after three. What the attendant answers, ignores, lets in or walks away from decides how the night ends at seven.