Gemma Rose

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“The Story Box” by Gemma Rose

Submitted to Contest #286

Gunni turned the box over in his little hands, as if it would change somehow from what it had always been. It didn’t, of course. It was just a box, maybe big enough to fit a chapter book in. The little ones he got from his classroom library, not the big ones Ine and his parents liked to read. It seemed bigger in his hands than it had on the dresser in Mom and Dad’s room. “I don’t need a jewelry box, Mom.” “You’re young, don’t rule it out.” Mom chuckled, sitting down in her favourite armchair and gesturing for him to take a seat in Dad’s next...

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Chicagoan, sailor, mostly a fanfic writer but stretching my original fiction skills with the weekly prompts.