[ WP ] Your sixteenth birthday means you get a book with the story of your life . Some people 's books are short , some are long . Yours is zero pages .

No one knows where the books come from. But on everyone's sixteenth birthday, a book appears within a foot of them. Personally I have seen a few of the books myself, most of them were long, enough to hold ninety years of life inside the covers. If a child dies before their sixteenth birthday, the book does n't appear, it as if some higher being decided that sixteen is when life really starts. 
 
 So when my book faintly began appearing I smiled. I watched as the covers appeared first, a dark rich blue, gold leaf wrapping around, beginning to inscribe my name. As soon as the cover was solid, I inched my bloody, shackled wrist to flip it open, waiting for the pages to appear. 
 
 Except they did n't, because right at that moment I heard a faint ringing of a gunshot and my consciousness faded. And as I lay bleeding out the pages in my book stopped appearing, as if sensing my death. 
 
 The last thing I saw was a hand reaching down and picking up my uncompleted book. Then his laugh rang out, as if somehow my half-completed book had completed his goal of trying to uncover God.
