Duct tape the corner where the cardboard is frayed. Tie a ribbon around the flap that threatens to bend back. Apply super glue to the seams and blow it dry carefully with pursed lips, the way you used to blow a kiss across the room to someone you were sure loved you and always would.
Don’t shake the box. Don’t listen too closely. Don’t peak inside. Never open it.
Melissa Flores Anderson has published work in swamp pink, Chapter House, HAD and Best Small Fictions 2025. Her debut short story collection All and Then None of You is out now from Cowboy Jamboree Press.
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