All Chapters of I'm My Brother's Cautionary Tale: Chapter 1 - Chapter 10

10 Chapters

Chapter 1

The moment the coffin closed above me, I was enveloped in endless darkness. I could hear the metallic lock clanging outside and my mother's icy voice, berating, "Open your eyes and look carefully at what death really is, Joe! Let’s see if you’ll talk about death so lightly in the future." My big brother, Joe Hastings, slammed the coffin frantically. "Let Janine out, Mom! She has asthma. Let her out and we can talk things out."My mother grunted. "It doesn't matter if she has asthma. She won't die just because I put her in a coffin. I'm an education expert. What can go wrong with disciplining a child? It's your sister's duty to serve as a cautionary tale for you. Tell me now. Will you dare do it again?!" Yes, I was used as teaching material to discipline Joe. This had been my duty since I was born.When Joe stayed up all night playing video games, my mother would turn on the light at the highest voltage and audio with the highest decibel for me. I was tortured for three days and t

Chapter 2

Joe begged my mother, pleading with my mother until his voice became hoarse, but my mother was not moved. "Let her out? Not so easily. Didn't you just say that life is not worth living, Joe? I'll make an example of Janine for you to see so you can judge for yourself whether it's better to live or to die!"Watch her for 24 hours and not an hour less! I want your gratitude to me ingrained into the very core of your soul!"The oxygen in the coffin started to thin as I struggled. I tried taking in deep breaths, but started wheezing from my asthma instead. I felt despair when I realized I could never escape by myself. If I could not get out, it would not be long before I died in this coffin. I stopped scratching the inside of the coffin and started slamming hard against the coffin walls instead, while making weak attempts to call for help. "Joe… Help me… It's so dark in here…" My voice echoed in the dark basement, and Joe went crazy with anxiousness. He suddenly stood up and tried to

Chapter 3

My father tried to hold down my mother using brute force, but she suddenly exploded with strength as she resisted violently. Joe tried to help my father hold my mother down, but he held back in fear of hurting my mother. All he could do was cry desperately, "I'm begging you, Mom! Give the key to Dad!" Just as my father was about to take control over the situation, my mother suddenly screamed like a madwoman and managed to free one hand to take out the key from her pocket."Give me the key, Sharon." My father reached out, but my mother suddenly smiled gleefully and swallowed the key while my father and Joe looked on in horror. Gulp!My mother swallowed and opened her mouth to show my father and Joe, tauntingly, that it was empty. "Look, I've swallowed the key. If you want to save her, go ahead and kill me to dig the key out of my stomach!"All of my hopes were dashed at that moment. I closed my eyes in despair and slowly curled into a ball. My tears, which were mixed with the

Chapter 4

The owner wanted to fight it out with my mother when she smashed his phone, but she refused to back down and ended up in a scuffle with him. My father glanced at them, but did not stop the fight. Instead, he raised the fire axe and aimed it at the lock on the coffin. My mother caught what he was doing from the corner of her eye and screamed, "Don't you dare, Edward!"She quickly abandoned the fight with the owner and stumbled over to the coffin. She sprawled over it and made sure her neck was right where the lock was. "Go ahead! Chop me up too if you dare! I'll kill myself if anyone dares to interfere with disciplining my son!"The axe paused mid-air, while my eyes widened in the coffin as I breathed my last. All of my pain vanished, and my body felt extremely light as I started to float. I floated out of the coffin and quietly stayed in the basement, watching the drama unfold in front of me.It was nice. I was finally released from my pain.Joe seemed to sense something, and he

Chapter 5

The police officers and my father worked together to open up the coffin, and a horrible stench immediately filled the basement. It was the stench of blood and filth from my bowels, accompanied by the rotting stench of death. The experienced police officers turned pale at the sight, and they took a step back.I was curled up quietly in a corner of the coffin. My face had turned purplish, just like how a corpse was. There was no longer any color on my lips. All ten fingers no longer had any fingernails on them, as they had fallen off my fingers from all the scratching, and they now looked like a bloody, fleshy pulp.The inside of the coffin was covered with horrifying scratches with bloodstains on them. My eyes were half-opened inside the coffin, and there was no life left in my eyes. Only a blank look was left.When my mother turned to look, my blank eyes met hers at the same time, and the look of glee froze on her face. "This… This isn't possible…"She refused to accept the reality

Chapter 6

My soul followed the ambulance all the way to the hospital's morgue. I looked coldly down at the body that once belonged to me without sadness or fear. I had been tortured by my mother for 18 years, and I was finally free.Outside the corridor of the morgue, tension was building. The forensic doctor was holding a thick stack of paper, which was the forensic report, as he approached my father and mother, who had a female police officer standing guard over her."Before the deceased passed, she endured a long period of torture while conscious. The fingernails on all ten of her fingers have broken off, and we found a large amount of wooden splinters inside her nails. The index finger and middle finger on her right hand suffered serious comminuted fractures from intense scratching."The forensic doctor placed several horrific close-up images on the table. "Her lungs show a large area of blood stasis that you can see, are dark purple-reddish in color. This was caused by a severe lack of o

Chapter 7

My father sat in the chair opposite with a dead look in his eye. "Stop your act, Sharon. You should just take your phony expert theories to hell with you. You claim that you did all this for Joe, but you don't love our son at all. You just love the genius you could control perfectly to prove your educational philosophies!"Whenever you faced pressure from academia, your pride and perverted need for control refused to let you vent on your son for fear that your greatest work would be ruined, so you used the excuse of love to vent all of your unhappiness onto Janine!"You treated Janine as your emotional dump and turned her into a live experiment to showcase your authority!" My mother turned pale and she slammed the glass. "That's not true! I did it for our family!"However, my father ignored her hysterical demeanor and motioned for the lawyer to place a signed document against the glass to show my mother. It was their divorce papers. "I've already started court proceedings for our

Chapter 8

"Don't touch her!" Joe grabbed my mother's messy hair and yanked it hard, causing her to fall heavily onto the ground. Friends and family watched as Joe pointed at my picture to reveal my mother for who she really was."Quit putting up an act of being a loving mother here! You never regretted killing her. You just regret not keeping Janine around as your backup for your pride and ego after I failed you and destroyed your investment in your education project."My mother's lips trembled at having her deepest thoughts exposed this way. "Joe, how can you say something like that about your own mother…""Get lost! You have no right to be here!" Joe strode forward and called security on her. Two muscular men grabbed my crying mother and dragged her out the door like garbage, flinging her outside the steps of the funeral parlor. A storm had been brewing, and it started to rain heavily as my mother crawled through the mud in despair. She watched as the hearse with my body in it left for

Chapter 9

While she was still out on bail, my mother was sent back to the home that she used to exert full control over. When she pushed the doors open, only an empty echo welcomed her back. Everything that belonged to my father and Joe was gone.Even the family photos had been taken, leaving behind faded marks on the wall that indicated the photos had once hung there. The only thing that remained untouched was my little dark, suffocating room. My mother was going crazy as she took out her phone to call Joe. It took her dozens of calls for Joe to finally pick up."Joe! Where are you? Come home right now! I can't be without you!" She screamed into the phone and even attempted to use her death to threaten him. "If you don't come home, I'll jump off the roof and make you guilty for the rest of your life!"On the other end of the phone, Joe's voice was colder than ice and filled with chilling hate. "All right, go ahead. Once you're dead, you can accompany Janine on the other side. She must have

Chapter 10

Meanwhile, my soul floated to the other side of the real world. I saw Joe give up the plan my mother had arranged for him, where he was supposed to enter the financial industry with glory. He started working hard to retake his exams and managed to get into the country's leading university in medicine to specialize in respiratory critical care.Several years later, he started interning in the hospital's emergency room. A little girl with a serious case of claustrophobia, which triggered a serious asthmatic reaction, was brought in as she was in critical condition.Joe's eyes turned red from trying to hold back tears, and he used everything he learned to help the little girl fight for life. He managed to perform endotracheal intubation on her, and she was saved from the brink of death as her blood oxygen levels slowly increased.He watched as the little girl sobbed in her parents' arms after regaining consciousness, and he quietly hid himself at the end of the corridor outside the eme

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