A key is...
...a talisman to access the promise of an unknown treasure inside a mysterious locked box.
...a code for technology with the potential to save a world that may be too controlling to let itself be saved.
...a winding mechanism for an antique clock that connects two restless and out-of-place lives across generations.
...a symbolic papier-mache gift of affection between young brothers who must weather a fierce parental storm.
...a long-lost sliver of rusted metal that carries more value in the conferred stories it holds than in its function.
...a nonsensical...