Uncle’s Junk Box

PROMPT: Interference with time

Tanner noticed that his aunt Adrianna was calling him. He answered the phone wondering what his aunt needed now. Since his uncle Anthony had died his aunt had been calling him two to three times a day. Probably because no one else would answer her calls.

“Hello Aunt Adrianna! How are you doing?”

“I am doing fine. I don’t want to keep you, but I am in the process of cleaning out the attic and I found your Uncle Anthony’s travel chest up there. I think it has a lot of stuff you might like since you and he were always talking about his travels. Would you like to look through it before I take out to be picked up by the Salvation Army?”

“Sure Aunt Adrianna! Thanks for thinking of me. I will be right over.”

Tanner headed over excited to look through the chest in the attic thinking, “I am really happy I answered the phone!”

His aunt answered the door and let him go up to the attic on his own. He knew the way.

The chest was one of those old leather bound wooden chests that contained all of his uncle’s ‘treasures’ he had picked up in his travels, or just accumulated through his long life. It was mostly just a lot of junk, but Tanner agreed with his uncle; it was filled with treasures. His uncle’s old baseball mitt, a glass jam jar filled…