Description
A man buries his mother in March and finds a shoebox under her bed.
Inside are 234 letters. All addressed to his mother. Not one of them opened.
The return address is his father's, the man he hated for 45 years. On the lid, in pencil, a date that was crossed out and moved four times.
Why would a woman keep every letter and never read one? And what was she hiding from her own son?
Then there is the barber in Fort Dodge, a striped pole, and one peppermint every third Saturday for nineteen years.
Watch to the end, then tell us in the comments: was his mother protecting him, or keeping him from his father?
A Zero Trace Stories original short.
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