Original fiction about the things families keep, and what happens when a document turns up.https://worldofcurious.com/en-auhttps://worldofcurious.com/article/the-box-in-the-loft-part-5/https://worldofcurious.com/article/the-box-in-the-loft-part-5/Part five of five. Her brother thinks the label was cowardice. Gwen does not, and she has worked out exactly why.Sun, 30 Aug 2026 05:00:00 GMTFamily SecretsfictionfamilysecretsEditorial Teamhttps://worldofcurious.com/article/the-box-in-the-loft-part-4/https://worldofcurious.com/article/the-box-in-the-loft-part-4/Part four of five. The search took five weeks, which was the part Gwen found hardest. He had put his name down in 1997.Sun, 30 Aug 2026 03:00:00 GMTFamily SecretsfictionfamilysecretsEditorial Teamhttps://worldofcurious.com/article/the-box-in-the-loft-part-3/https://worldofcurious.com/article/the-box-in-the-loft-part-3/Part three of five. The small brown envelope had one document in it, and it rearranged everything Gwen knew about her mother.Sun, 30 Aug 2026 01:00:00 GMTFamily SecretsfictionfamilysecretsEditorial Teamhttps://worldofcurious.com/article/the-box-in-the-loft-part-2/https://worldofcurious.com/article/the-box-in-the-loft-part-2/Part two of five. Twenty letters from a woman called Joan, mostly about shoes and the weather. And then one paragraph that stopped both of them.Sat, 29 Aug 2026 23:00:00 GMTFamily SecretsfictionfamilysecretsEditorial Teamhttps://worldofcurious.com/article/the-box-in-the-loft/https://worldofcurious.com/article/the-box-in-the-loft/Part one of five. Gwen was clearing the loft for the house sale. The box had been under the water tank for thirty-one years.Sat, 29 Aug 2026 21:00:00 GMTFamily SecretsfictionfamilysecretsEditorial Team