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IT’S A DOUBLE EPISODE FOR CHRISTMAS!

The Black Box Started To Vibrate: Part One

The Box: Part 21

Robert Gowty
Short and Weird
Published in
2 min readDec 24, 2024

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New to The Box or maybe you’ve missed an episode? I recommend reading the previous episode if you missed it. It will help this make a little more sense! Here’s a list of the series thus far:

The Box Series

22 stories

The girl’s phone rang. She cancelled it. Glancing over her shoulder, Chloe could see 64 missed calls. She sent a text:

“Mother. I’m fine. I’ll call when the conundrum’s resolved.”

The phone rang again.

“Why don’t you just answer?”

“That will break the spell, and the schedule will reset.”

“What Schedule?”

“The schedule has been violated. Only the spell is keeping me from forgetting the current target. If the schedule resets, the target will be forgotten, along with the 63 other targets that came after it. But the spell won’t let me remember their name, either. Klarissa? Claudia? Clover?”

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Short and Weird
Short and Weird

Published in Short and Weird

The place for strange and funny microfiction stories (300 words or fewer). If you prefer 301-word stories, then this isn’t the place for you. Come back when you have a shorter attention span. Nah, I’m kidding — stories of any length can be great. But here, it’s all ≤ 300.

Robert Gowty
Robert Gowty

Written by Robert Gowty

Extemporal Explorer. Music, art, fiction, science fiction, culture and technology. Tasmanian Existentialism. Aficionado of the number seven.

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