"Curiosity kills the cat." One box. Three words. Would you open it if you were told against it? [Highest Rank: #139 in short story] Copyright 2015 By Angie All Right Reserved {#Wattys2015} {#JustWriteIt}

On Christmas Eve, around 1812, Pip, an orphan who is about six years old, encounters an escaped convict in the village churchyard while visiting the graves of his mother, father, and siblings. The convict scares Pip into stealing food and a file to grind away his shackles, from the home he shares with his abusive older sister and her kind, passive husband Joe Gargery, a blacksmith. The next day, soldiers recapture the convict while he is engaged in a fight with another convict; the two are returned to the prison ships from which they escaped...