Curiosity

Exploring the concept of second-person point-of-view where the narrator is talking to the reader.

With the bite of an apple or the prick of a finger, a tale begins to unfold. Your tale however, begins with the simplest of origins. You unlock an old jewelry box that belonged to your great grandmother. She had it locked and the lock had been fused with flame. You felt it was important to find out "Why?" And that curiosity has now cost you. Dearly.

The tale has begun and you have opened a veritable Pandora’s box. It was not empty but now it is and you shall never know what it is that is not longer there. A wisp? A ghost? Or something truly sinister. Or perhaps there was nothing there to begin with and now there is something. Perhaps that something is you. Perhaps the box was a doorway to which you broke the lock. That which you opened and the mere act of it meant you are now in a world that looks the same on the outside, but it is truly fundamentally different from where you come from. It is not your world but mine: the World Within the Box. Here the rules are what I make and the life you lead is what I choose. Your family will find an empty jewelry box and you simply gone. They would never, ever, ever, imagine that you are here with me in my own little world.

So let the games begin shall we?