The Coffin in the Guest Room

Summary

The day my acceptance letter to Harvard arrived, my sister jumped into the river, leaving behind a suicide note claiming she couldn't handle the pressure.

My parents were devastated.

They tore my acceptance letter to shreds.

Then, listening to a charlatan psychic, they locked me in a coffin for seven days without food or water to "purge my sister's resentment," all so her spirit would return on the seventh day.

I screamed until my throat bled, scratched at the wood until my nails were gone. All I got in return was, "This is what you owe your sister."

I suffocated to death in that coffin.