Left to Burn by My Toxic Family

On Christmas Day, Ethan comes home with a gift basket from work and hands his mother Helen a card holding $300. She promises a dinner of all his favorite dishes, but the meal never comes; when his blood sugar drops and he reaches for a piece of fruit, she slaps his hand away and says the food is for Chloe. A call from Chloe sends his parents rushing out to a restaurant dinner for four, and Arthur tells Ethan he was not invited. His father says that as a married man Ethan is no longer part of the family, while Chloe will always be their precious baby girl.

Ethan recalls a childhood of being set aside for Chloe, from a cancelled summer camp to studying on a locked balcony in winter. Then Chloe phones and says he may come after all, and the dinner is moved to an old family cabin in the woods. There, Chloe greets him warmly and tells him the food is inside. The moment he steps through the door, Ryan grabs his phone and shoves him in, and the heavy door is locked from the outside. Alone in the dark, Ethan pounds on the door and screams for his family to open it.