Writing Prompt

How to hide a body? That’s usually the question murderers ask themselves although I haven’t so much as harmed a single hair on someone’s head. No, I need to hide the body of my recently deceased grandmother. You may wonder why I can’t just bury her well it’s illegal, ever since ‘they’ came it was made mandatory to donate all the deceased to scientific research on understanding the human body. I’ve...

I’m not gonna let you cold-hearted monsters cut her open and pick apart her insides. Aunt G didn’t even sign up to be an organ donor. She wanted certain things to be kept to herself- literally and metaphorically.

As she died yesterday, the twinkle dimming in her green eyes, she reminded me of what I have to do. What I’ve done for all my family members that have passed since the new law. Grandpa ...

This is journal entry #572, and I have some things to share. It’s been a few months ever since scientists and the government made it mandatory for when we die, to give our bodies up to them. I’ve never thought this day in age would come, giving our bodies, our corpses, up to science. I guess it’s illegal now to bury people, but I don’t care what’s right and wrong when it comes down my family. I tr...

Two weeks ago today my grandmother passed away. She wasn’t an organ donor, she was a faithful Christian woman who never went a day without a little gold cross dangling from her neck.

Her name was Ginger, as long as i could remember she had short, black hair and the bluest eyes i had ever seen. She made chocolate chip cookies and the best cornbread i’ve ever tasted. Once an elementary teacher, sh...

I don’t know if I can do this. I don’t want her to be given to science. They don’t need her body. All they’re gonna do is open her up and look inside her and well whatever else. I can’t let them do that to her. I need to hide her body and leave her to rest in peace. That’s the whole thing with dead people right. To leave them to rest in peace. RIP. HELLO??? Well I’m gonna bury her so no one is gon...

All my little sister wanted when she died was to be buried with my grandma at the old Grove Lutheran cemetery. April was the best little sister I could of asked for. She was kind, sweet, loyal and all around the best 16 year old there ever was. We knew she was out at a party she asked me to drive her and I said no just because I didn’t want to. So when I got the call at 1am I was worried. It was A...