TROUBLE WITH GUS
(5,100 words)
Gus is the name both of the family's dog and the number-plate of their new estate car. But Gus refuses to go in the back, and the car itself is quite odd, because it is very cold and paw-prints mysteriously appear in the back.
Eventually dad decides to trace the original owner of the car to see if he can figure out the cause of the problem. After that he dreams a most peculiar dream, and in the morning he finds that he knows exactly what to do......
© Sarah Thiel
