Short Story Contest: Finalist #5

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The Words We Don't Say by Sutton Chiorini
Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School - Montgomery County, Maryland

“Don’t open the box,” my father always told me.

It was a bright pink box—pink was my favorite color at the time—about the size of a standard shoebox, the lid covered in (my) red hand painted hearts. The lid always stayed closed, like it was surrounded by a barrier of duct tape, but my father had cut a slot, like a coin slot, into the top, no wider than my pinky finger and a bit shorter (that’s the measurement he had used to cut it.)

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