This work talks about a young person who has recently come to a very chilling realization, but you as a reader won’t know what it it until the very end.

1. I slept for an extraordinarily long time and was eventually nudged by a librarian, who told me it was time for me to leave, the library was closing.

2. Packing my bags and heading out the door, I felt the familiar sense of dread fill me once more.

3. I feel eyes watching me as I scurry on home, I miss my real family but now I’m all alone.

4. My uncle Ben grills me as soon as I walk in the door, “Why’re ya going to the library so early, what’ere ya lookin’ for?” 

5. Shaking as his evil eye haunts me, my nerves flow through the roof as my lies taunt me.

6. “Just studying for a test, nothing else for me to see” But my soul is urging me to screech and sob, “YOU DID THIS TO ME!” 

7. He nods his head and goes back to sleep while I lay down on my ratted mattress and sheets, shaking and shivering while my answer drove me to insanity.

8. I can’t believe he killed my family.

Process

I was on a meeting with my mentor when she introduced a new way to write using a random prompt. One of us grabbed a book, flipped to the 8th page and read the 8th line. That sentence now became our prompt/starting sentence and we had to come up with a story in 8th lines.