100-story Challenge for Accord: Day 60

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DAY 60

STORY #60

The Box

Dick was driving on the A-1, when he spotted a brightly wrapped box in the road. He stopped. Looking at it, in his rearview mirror, the lure was too much. Dick took the package.

It had a card, “Do not open--or else.” No name. Putting the box in the back, he drove on. But--he saw it in the mirror, tempting him. Stopping the car, he opened the box--just then, out of nowhere, the car was flattened by a lorry. Police found an unwrapped box at the scene, with only a note inside: “Open on pain of death.”