I hate breaking the lock, since the chest belonged to him. There is no other way in.

With a screwdriver, I snap the latch, now forever broken on the floor.

Inside are just old magazines. Moved from house to house for forty years, for a reason I will never know.

SJ Hunt is from flyover country in the United States. She is an archaeologist, and will never understand how she gets payed to play in the dirt. Sometimes she writes stuff, and takes blurry photos.