The Secret Box

Roz Carter
2 min readAug 8, 2018
Photo by Bo Mei via Pixabay

Reed screamed and slammed the top shut on his secret box. The rollie-pollie made a scritching sound that made him hide behind his hands.

“Reed!”

“Huh?”

“What are you doing?”

“Nah, nothing!”

“Don’t make me come up there!”

Reed wiped hot tears from his eyes. He was scared and he didn’t know what to do. He had a…

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Roz Carter

Roz Carter writes stories with powerful Black women. She coaches and edits fiction. She loves coffee, soap operas, and her cat. Linktr.ee/blackbrownbeigewriting