Something Hidden
She raised the bag and flipped it over to see inside, but something heavy had moved. She felt around inside the bag and started to compress the lining until she discovered the offender. She examined each box, thinking, “How peculiar.”
Her fingertips stumbled across the hole in the lining of the bag. As her palm closed around the enigmatic rectangular item, she understood precisely what it was and that it wasn’t supposed to be there. She reached inside.