The Silver Box
- by Louise Lawrence
- Short Story
- Fantasy
- Adults
- Definite Time Travel
- English
- “The Silver Box” by Louise Lawrence, in A Quiver of Ghosts, edited by Aidan Chambers (The Bodley Head, March 1987).
While searching for a ghost in the past, Mark and Zak stumble upon young Carole, shut up in her bedroom with glandular fever in 1987.
What else do we live for but the little mundane things of life? If we sit around waiting for the few, rare wonderful moments that make it all worthwhile we may as well not live at all.
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- “The Silver Box” by Louise Lawrence, in A Quiver of Ghosts, edited by Aidan Chambers (The Bodley Head, March 1987).