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.
DEBUT
“The Silver Box,” in A Quiver of Ghosts, edited by Aidan Chambers (The Bodley
Head, March 1987).
VARIANTS
Debut. “The Silver Box,” in A Quiver of Ghosts, edited by Aidan Chambers (The Bodley Head, March 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.
1 English variant