The Journal of the Last Days: A Short Story

When Maddie finds an old leather-bound journal in a dusty antique shop, she buys it on a whim, hoping to fill its pages with her thoughts and secrets. At first, everything seems normal-just her own entries, documenting the little details of her life.

But on the second day, she notices something strange. A new entry. One she doesn't remember writing. The handwriting is eerily similar to hers, yet the words predict events before they happen. A spilled coffee. A missed bus. A classmate's sudden illness.

At first, she convinces herself it's just her imagination-stress, exhaustion, anything but the impossible. But as the predictions grow darker, more precise, she realizes the journal isn't just writing back... it's telling her how it all ends.

And the last entry has already been written.