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Box

(7 stories)

Gym buddies. Her on the punchbag, me on the rowing machine. Saved rent by moving in together. She's a bouncer. I write. Box & Cox. @130story

Box” by edbroom, 14 Apr 14

Tears streaming down,the toddler cried,"The box ISN'T empty.I put kisses inside!" @130story

She screamed. The cardboard box - a house, spaceship, island & more in her childhood - now contained the stuff of her nightmares. @130story

@130story There's no such thing as ghosts. I've been telling people that for, oh, must be two hundred years now.

..so perfectly square..faces flat to unimaginable tolerances..it gave the impression of disbelief by its perfection...ghostlike.. @130story

It was inert..dead..no outgassing no entropy.. no signals..only orange... yet somehow the box told of technologies as yet unseen @130story

He wanted to think outside the box and unpack some new ideas, but he was wrapped tight in his old ways and nothing would stack up. @130story