Short Story Contest: Finalist #6

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Don’t Open the Box by Shelby Duncan
Washington Waldorf School - Montgomery County, Maryland

"Don’t open the box,” my father always told me. It was a small, wooden box—insignificant yet prized by him. For years, I never ventured to open it; never wondered about the contents that were in its safekeeping. Sometimes the smallest things hold the greatest secrets. I had no idea that this hand carved box would be the vessel to change my life definitely.

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