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Author of A Retail Carol
A Fun Christmas Satire
About Lee
Lee Vetter has always had a passion for storytelling. Over the years, he’s written scripts for a variety of plays and short films, bringing both real and imagined stories to life. At the heart of his work is a simple belief: everyone has a story worth sharing—it just needs someone to tell it.
Lee lives in New Jersey with his wife, where he can be found taking long bike rides, keeping the local ice cream shop in business, and befriending every dog he meets.
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Shopping for a last-second gift on Christmas Eve isn't for the faint of heart.
The Westbrook Trading Company is a struggling department store, slowly losing its battle with online shopping. With flickering fluorescent lights, outdated shelves, and the relentless buzz of the Rat Pack Christmas playlist, the store is a weary monument to a retail era long gone by. But tonight, it’s the unlikely epicenter of desperation, nostalgia, and absurdity.
As crowds descend in search of the elusive Plastic-Thing-3000—this year’s must-have gadget—an ensemble cast of bargain hunters, exhausted employees, and misguided romantics collide in a night of chaos, longing, and tender moments. At the helm is Archibald Hensley III, a joyless miser clinging to cassette tapes and outdated ideals, whose personal regrets echo through the aisles like the Ghost of Christmas Gone Wrong.
Between a pastor who cut his service short to go last minute shopping, a mother trying to win a toy for her daughter, a chintzy snow globe with too much history, and two best friends fumbling to relive their glory days, the night unfolds as a bittersweet, darkly funny reminder that sometimes the worst places bring out the most human parts of us.