Short Story Contest: Honorable Mention #3

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A New Beginning by Aden Lessiak
Linganore High School - Frederick County, Maryland

“Don’t open the box,” my father always told me. I was only seven when he gave it to me. It was the day after my mother had died, and I had been sitting on my bed musing over old photographs. He walked in as I was looking at a picture of my mother and me at a park, one which was probably long gone by now. These days, you hardly ever see a tree, let alone a vast grassy field. He gently placed the box on a shelf hanging across my bed, and then left. I was so consumed, I almost didn’t notice him. Only the creak of the wooden floor boards let me know he was there. Just as he was passing back through the doorway, I heard him whisper those words that I would suffer through time and time again: “Don’t open the box.”

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