STORY STARTER
In a heart-shaped box, a mother keeps her children’s teeth...
Use this as the opening line to a story or poem, and decide whether this narrative will have a sweet or harrowing tone.
Teeth
Another long day of school got me tired, so luckily I already finished my homework. Mom’s at work, Kayla and Kai are sleeping in their bunk beds. Mom texts me as she has a date tonight with another guy of one of her dating apps, she wants me to grab her pearl necklace and run it to the car for her. So I go to her room and look around, 3 heart shape boxes catch my eyes, one labeled Kai, another Kayla, and the third, Darien, my name. As I open the box theres….teeth..? I open all three, they al have teeth, though Kai only has 5, Kayla has 8, and their all of my teeth as well. Why would she keep that, I know the tooth fairy isn’t real but why would she……my eyes redirect onto more heart boxes. Why is there so many….? She only has 3 kids, whose teeth are these? They look like adult teeth.. I grab the pearl necklace, shove them all back to where they were, pretend I saw nothing as I give her the necklace. As I should probably ask her another day..