Scott Gardner was raised in Titusville, PA, the home of the first productive oil well in the world and the birth of the petroleum industry. He graduated from the University of Pittsburgh in 1978 with a BA in English writing and has been scribbling stories intermittently ever since. Scott moved to Florida in 2017. When the world became unsettled with the advent of COVID-19, he returned to his fiction, and his characters enthusiastically welcomed him back. Together they finished this collection of short stories set in the Oil Creek Valley, the valley that changed the world.