The letter had read:

“Dear Holbrook Family,

For your contribution in the downfall of Oak Hill, you are cursed.

However, I have generously decided to give your family one last chance to undo the curse. Reunite at your family estate on Friday at 8pm, one week from today. Choose one among you to live forever with the curse, and the rest of you will be free of it, or you will all live with ...

On a dreary April day, the family of Beau Crow gather at his estate to read his final will and testament. Though his sudden passing was unexpected, none among his family shed a tear, save for the assistant who has served beside Crow for four years, Olive.

The Crow family assembles in what was Sir Crow's favorite room of the estate: his office.

The family has always been estranged in a way. There...

“I never thought you’d come.”

I was standing at the rail of the deck, a condensing glass of iced tea balanced in front of me, and the voice came from behind. I didn’t turn. He was just far enough away to not make me nervous, but too close for me to feel comfortable.

“He was my father. Once.” I didn’t turn when I said it, and I heard him take a step. I braced myself for the verbal onslaught, the ...

“Uncle John says he’s immortal.” Casey stood in the immaculate kitchen holding the handwritten letter in one hand and freshly squeezed OJ in the other. The morning sun slanted down through the blinds. Daisy, the ginger fur baby, stretched out in its warmth. Casey screwed the letter up, dropping it onto his finished plate. It got stuck in a blob of blood-red jam.

“What?!” Kelvin grinned at him th...

Anticipation hung in the air as the family gathered in silence. As they waited for their mother, the only sound was the beating of their hearts. The calm before the storm had never felt so charged.

The short-tempered sister shifted in her seat, bouncing her legs up and down. She couldn't stand the tension. "Can we just get on with it already?" she muttered.

The arrogant brother rolled his eyes. ...

Ropes already frayed and torn.

Unkept promises and betrayal, settle among the silence.

I never thought we’d all be together in the same room again.

All I see when I look at my family, is harsh words and love that was never unconditional.

The confusion of our connection clouds around us all in this cramped, run down lawyers office.

I only came out of greed.

“Maybe my disgruntled grandmother left me...

The night of February 28th was a quiet one, scorned by the sounds of the harsh night winds whipping through the valleys and through the rivers, chilling the bones of any who dared to traverse empty plains. But for the Winchester family, the 28th was simply the beginning.

They all gathered in the family hall. Winston came first, his girlfriend Ally hanging off his arm. Then, Astrid, her sunglasses...

I was the first to show.

Me of all people, I was the first out of a dozen lousy members of my ‘family’ to show my face.

‘If only he could see me now’ i mumble under my breath in a raw sense of bitter joy.

That was the first time I smiled since Grandpa passed. It almost felt criminal to seek even a smidge of pleasure in his absence.

Suppose that’s why I avoided talking entirely and shut my door...

My mom never got to cry at my wedding, but she did come to cry at my funerals. In the past, she didn’t mind about losing me. She cared about losing all the things she wanted me to become. “If you love someone let them go,” and I knew at that time that leaving her was the only way to make us both happy. You don’t know how to love until they’re gone. She now thanked God, and blamed the Devil,...

Today we gather here,

my uncle is drunk on beer

my mothers eyes are filled with tears

my grandfathers fist clench in fear

We gather around this stone in the ground

not many could make it into town.

the ones who could, never got along,

they all had their own motives of being around.

some wanted the sympathy of the death in a family

some hoped the will left miney in there name

some wanted closu...