When Family Turns To Cruelty

Chapter 4

Word Count: 517 | Released on: 03/07/2025

as my father pushed me into my bedroom. "All those years, pr

is voice a low growl. "She won't be hur

key turning in the lock. A heavy piece of furniture w

isoner in

The window looked out over the backyard, towards the shed wh

it happen aga

. I had to call the polic

oset rod used for hanging clothes. It was flimsy, but it might be lon

bbled a desperate message: "HELP. PARENTS

fully, I pushed open my window, the old frame groaning in protest. Mrs

p it against their window pane. I

ching as far as I could. The rod wobbled, and the no

u think you

n the doorway, my mother right behin

e closet rod in my hand. H

and ripped the r

snarled. "Trying to r

e raised the metal rod and brou

hrough me. I cried out and st

betray us again," he s

, her eyes wide with fake conce

pe, honey," my mother s

In the last life, she also tried to escape right before she ruined everything. Y

y father' s grip on the rod tightened. He

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When Family Turns To Cruelty

Mo Yufei Young Adult

“The last thing I remember was the gnawing hunger, locked in the shed by my parents who believed my adopted sister' s outrageous lie. "I'm a time-traveler!" Britney had shrieked, claiming I'd ruined our family in a past life and killed them. My own parents, without a single question, bought her story, seeing her as a savior and me, their biological child, as a monster. They bound me, broke my limbs, and left me for dead in our dark, dank basement, all to ensure Britney got everything I had worked for. How could they be so blind, so cruel, so willing to believe a fantasy over their own daughter? Then, I opened my eyes to sunlight, my body whole, only to hear Britney' s cheerful voice from downstairs, alive, on the very day she claimed to be a time-traveler.”