4thness

Abstract

Charlie Gordon hung a box. It was mounted on the front of his house, next to the door, narrow and painted black and oddly proportioned, like a talisman, like a ovate refugee from Easter Island. He hung it there so deliveries of large, flat boxes could be put safely inside, protected from the weather in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States. They never did it though, the FedEx people, and UPS, the Postal Service. They always left them on the porch floor, under the box, in front of god and everyone, and this was a great annoyance to Charlie Gordon, the star of our show.