The Dark Netizen’s Wacky Weekend Challenge word for week 7 is gift, with maximum length of 200 words.
Yesterday I heard the sound of the postal truck make its usual stop at my mailbox. Heading out to retrieve the delivery, I looked down to see a small red package on the step. Picking it up, I noticed that that there was no address label to me or a return address. There was no writing at all upon it.
My first instinct was curiosity, then fear. I shook the light box and heard nothing, then brought it into the house. I called the small post office in my area and asked what they knew about it. They said they would ask the carrier when she got back to the office; she called later to tell me she hadn’t stopped at my house at all today.
The box sat on the counter all that afternoon and evening. Did I really want to know what was in it? Who was playing tricks? Maybe it was something good from a person I knew who wanted me to be pleasantly surprised? I left it unopened and went to bed. All night my sleep was troubled, filled with vivid nightmares.
I went to make coffee in the morning. The package was gone.
Tao Talk 
Were you disappointed when it disappeared?
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That is up to the reader to decide. Would you be?
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I guess I would be, but on the other hand especially these days it could have been anthrax or some type of bomb.
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But what about the part that it was on your counter when you went to bed, but it was gone when you woke up? Wouldn’t that freak you out?
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Yes that is downright creepy.
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uh huh 🙂 fiction is as fiction does and sometimes it does creepy
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Ooooooo
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Suspense!
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I would check for ticking and then open it up!
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I think I watch too much NCIS… I’d call a bomb squad. Also there were local reports of boxes bombs left outside people’s houses. Bombers are testing at random sites. Freaky story! 😆
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Wow didn’t know that about the random bombs being left. One of the benes of not watching the news or tv 🙂
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After the elections, one of my friends put his TV away. He’s happier without it☺
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he made a good choice. i use mine for netflix and movies only now. no propaganda and no commercials is the way to go 🙂
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Ooo boy!
That is some suspense there! And I believe it won’t be solved! 😉
Nicely done! 😀
Sorry for the late response
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I’m so glad you appreciate it 🙂 No I don’t think it will….
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