Foreshadowing

The early sign that you did not fully read until later.

A feeling or detail that hinted at what was coming.

When you knew something was about to happen before it did.

The small moment that announced a large event.

A pattern in your life that repeated before you recognized it.

The conversation that, in retrospect, was the beginning of the end.

When your intuition pointed somewhere your mind had not yet gone.

A decision that seemed small and turned out to be the hinge.

The warning that arrived clearly and was not taken seriously.

When early evidence of what would happen was visible to anyone who looked.

A first meeting that contained everything the relationship would become.

The thing you said that you would later realize you had meant.

An early version of the person or place or work that held the later truth.

When a minor moment turned out to have been a turning point.

The dream or image that preceded the event it resembled.

A beginning that already contained its ending.

The quiet detail in an ordinary day that changed everything after.

When you were being prepared for something you did not know was coming.

A pattern emerging so slowly you only saw it fully in retrospect.

The early chapter of a story that made sense only from its end.