If this were a work that my brother wished to include in a collection of our works, I would have said no.

Because it isn’t a story at all.

Supposedly, the Grimm brothers gathered folklore from German word of mouth and made their own twists on them.

But what twist is this?

Did they get so many different stories about what was in the box that they decided to not reveal it at all?

It’s one paragraph.

But you know what?

That’s a paragraph I’ll never get back!