Challenge
December 2024 Drabble: Give and Take
With the holiday season upon us, tell me a story about giving, taking, loving, losing, joy, sorrow. Any or all of the above. There's a prize for what I consider to be the most interesting entry. Here are the rules if you're interested in winning: tell me a story in exactly 100 words. Use prose, not poetry, standard punctuation, spelling, and grammar. Please do NOT tag me, I'll read all the entries conforming to the rules at the end of the challenge period.
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Every Sunday, I receive a box.
It comes on a small van, grey smog harumphing from its exhaust.
The box is made from thick cardboard; quality tape is wrapped around each gap. It takes me some time to open the box as I've never quite perfected a technique.
Once the packaging has been ravaged, I peer inside, four roughly ripped corners frame my face. At the base, an arms' depth away, sits an envelope.
I lift the envelope from the dead center where it always seems to sit, delicately peeling the wax seal.
A letter. To me. 'You are nothing'.