Flash Fiction - Part 3 (Vote for the best one!)

The semester is coming to an end and our flash writers produced a lot of nice, creepy stories. Below, the last stories written. Enjoy the reading and vote (on the left) for the one you consider the best piece of flash fiction.

THE LEFT SHOE
It’s almost done. Bob saw that it’s just missing his left shoe. One of the men is waiting impatiently for the decision. The small one is trying to answer correctly. He is the only one who can save Bob. Here’s the deal: Bob won’t die if that guy gives the right answer, but he has only one more chance. “Electroshock! That’s my answer.” The other man gives him an evil smile and says: “You’re wrong...” Bob has no hope anymore. The guy put on his left shoe. Time to die. It’s hard to be the doll on a hangman game.

Kleiton

Débora

Heryzania
Cesar

URBAN LEGENDS
Samantha just knew as soon as she opened the door that she wasn’t supposed to be there. Even though she could clearly hear her roommate groaning in bed with some random guy, she wouldn't make the mistake of catching their attention - today she would pretend she wasn’t there. Samantha woke up thirty minutes earlier than the usual in the next morning. She looked to her roommate's bed but she couldn't see anything besides a black blanket covering the place where she was supposed to be. Carefully, she took the blanket out and that’s when she saw her. It was a horrible image of blood in a disfigured body. Flesh and viscera scattered everywhere. Samantha turned around trying to reach the door. On the walls, with blood, she saw the words: aren’t you glad you didn’t turn on the lights?

Ingrid

Thais

Ellen

Elciu

OUCH CHARLIE
Charlie woke up and decided to put an end to her suffering. Moving around in that wheelchair was so painful. She couldn’t understand why God had done this to her. At school, the kids would pick on her calling her “Charlie chair”. She killed herself. When she arrived in Heaven, for her surprise, all angels and even God were in wheelchairs too. She asked God what all that meant. God grinned and answered: “ It does not matter how you move or where you go, but what is inside your heart”. Charlie started to cry and then God gave her a second chance back on Earth. From that day on she became a better person.

Caci

Marilia

Ademir
Zilene

THE TEACHER
Those four students couldn’t manage to go home, so the teacher invited them to sleepover in her house. The trip was, like all her classes, incredible funny. When they got to the house... “Teacher, what‘s that creepy room?”. “Please, don’t enter that messy room, ok?”, she answered, smiling, as always. People at school loved to make jokes about her: “She’s always so happy because there’s a secret room in her house where she tortures several people and animals”, so they laughed a lot thinking about this before going to sleep. In the morning, one student woke up earlier and went to the kitchen, in his way, he saw that forbidden room. It was even worse than they thought: glued on the walls, there were hundreds of pictures of a teenager wearing a helmet and she was in the center of it, sitting, rocking her body and listening to a teenager that screamed with a terrible girlish voice - she was a Justin Bieber lover!!

Jonathan
Benvinda
Emanuel
Robson

FROM EYE TO MOUTH
You’re staring at me and I can’t run away. Why do you chase me everywhere I go? I can’t even look at you! Shame on you, piece of dirtiness! Won’t somebody help me? PLEASE!!! Don’t you chase me, get away! I can’t bear this anymore, life is becoming a torture! And don’t you give me that look! Gosh... I feel like Augustus Gloop in Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory. This is so stupid, I hate you, though I can’t live without you! But I’m feeling so empty... Oh my! To hell with the diet! I’ll eat you, damn cake... only today!

Amanda
Camila
Daniel

TASTE OF BLOOD
Mellisa is running away from someone or something while the blood of her neck is draining out since that thing bit her in the darkness of her house and she kicked his balls. She breaks a broom in the middle and makes a stake like in “The Vampires Diaries”. Mellisa walks slowly toward the kitchen’s door of the house, which suddenly opens with din; she closes her eyes and sticks in something hard and alive, thus she can feel the blood coming down her fingers. When she opens her eyes her boyfriend looks at her and lets a tear escape.

Jhonatan
Amsterdam Thiago
wallyson

LIKE FATHER LIKE SON
A creator decided to create a small ant and he did it. There it was, his little creation running to and fro. When suddenly a huge abyss was dragging everything into it and the little ant was going towards this starving monster. Then, the creator thought to himself; “ How can I save my creation?, If I talk to her, she will not understand me, If I place my hand in front of her, she will climb it up and down and still in danger”. After that he had a great idea; “I know what I will do: I will turn myself into an ant and show my little creation the way out of danger”. Finally, he was devoured in order to save his creation.

Robson

Flash Fiction - Part 2

THE CHOSEN ONE
People running while a person wearing a Voldmort mark shot everywhere. I could hear someone whispering “We are going to attack back in the first possibility”. Then I started to run to a safe place and heard another gunshot. I looked back and saw two men with their firearm pointed to me; suddenly I noticed I had a gun in my hand and discharged it against them, so they were gone. I was wearing the Voldmort mask. I started to walk but I fell down; there was a hole in my chest. Suddenly I woke up. I was safe in Hogwarts.

FIGHTING AGAINST THE FEAR
Sitting down firmly on the seat. I won´t fall this time... Dad is not here to help me, but it is ok. It is time to stop with all this silly fear. The guys had already mocked me enough. I am old enough to do this. I can do this, it is just a matter of balance. One foot on the pedal, the other still on the ground. Looking at the skyline. Holding the handlebars with ease. Feeling the emotion. Accelerating loud and, at age 30, taking the Harley Davidson out of the garage for the first time.

MERCY
She found him trying to hide himself in the living room. Although he begged for his life, claiming he was the wrong person, she shot him in the head. Agent Lewis had long forgotten the meaning of “mercy”. Tropa de Elite would be considered a fairy tale compared to the horror she faced as an FBI agent.  She headed back to the police station and, when her boss asked about the raid, she answered: “the bad guy was taken out”. “What bad guy? No! You shouldn't have done that! He was an undercover agent, not a mobster!” The boss looked flushed with anger, he was yelling at her, saying she should have reported the situation, the instructions were clear: “recognize the place”. It wasn’t supposed to be an extermination action!

THE SLEEPY PRINCESS
This dream was like reality and that princess was with the one she loved. She was sleeping alone and felt like her boyfriend was with her. He broke her heart and the dreadful sadness turned the shiny princess into a cold girl who walked around wondering when her life was going to end. Frederick Charles, one of her admirers, suggested a solution: a sleepy pendant - a magical artifact that would take the poor lonely princess into a deep sleep, always dreaming the most incredible plots, in which, for sure, her lover would be. Once she was asleep, she began to dream about a knight who was coming towards her, riding a sleek black horse. There wasn’t much she could do while she was drowning, forever.

DEAD OR ALIVE
He was running like crazy. His heart was beating fast. His blood was shedding on the floor from the wound in his chest. He was losing everything he worked hard to have. He could feel the murderer getting closer, but there was no way out. “I can’t die here!”, he thought to himself. Before he could react, a bullet pierced his leg, he fell on his knees and saw the gun pointed to his head. “Please, don’t kill me!” he shouted. “THIS CAN’T BE THE END!” Suddenly his screams were abruptly interrupted by a familiar voice. “Don’t make so much noise, Jim!” his mom said.  “Can’t you play video games like a normal person just for a change?”
 

AFTER 30 SECONDS OF SILENCE
It was one month together and they were discussing for almost 30 minutes. It started in the restaurant, all because of one stupid thing. Romeo was dizzy because he has drunk four glasses of wine and Juliet was bored with everything. Suddenly, in the corner of her eyes, she saw a bright light shining. Juliet tried to yell but there wasn’t time: a big truck crashed into their car, which flipped over several times. Romeo opened his eyes and just saw darkness around, searching for her with one hand only. “Juliet you’re still here?”. He found Juliet’s hand and hugged her body tightly like they ever did it. They were found in the morning when the ambulance came and found them dead among their blood and the remains of an old machine.

LETHAL LOVE
He looks at her body: it doesn’t move. She’s dead. “Juliet! What did you do?” He screams. Silence. He takes a bottle that he was carrying and drinks the poison. “I’m coming, my love! We’re going to a place where no one will separate us. We’ll, finally, live our love forever!” He lies besides her. The audience applauds strongly: “Bravo!” The curtain falls. Jane gets up saying “Good job, Frank! You were great!” Looking at the bottle on his hand, she whispers: “Frank! What did you do?” The curtain rises again. That was not the correct bottle…

Flash Fiction - Part 1

PROM DISASTER
Sitting on that white seat, she thinks how come she could be living such situation. It was prom night. Gorgeous on that dress, and everyone thought the same thing. Specially him. Some glances were exchanged, and few hours later, the magic moment happened. She still remembers he smelled like orange tic tac. What she didn’t imagine was that, some weeks later, she would be sitting there, feeling a yellow flow coming from her inside. One stripe… if the second one appears, her life would be irremediably changed. Another stripe. No more brilliant future or career, life is over, test was positive. At least a new life was beginning.

Amanda Tavares
Daniel Medeiros
Camila Cadete

BLACK DAY
Kin opens her eyes and wakes up frightened: it’s dark everywhere! Her heart beats faster...  There’s a weird sound of steps downstairs. She jumps out of bed. Her hands recognized a chair, a bookcase, the bedroom wall. ‘Who’s there?’. Silence. She takes courage, opens the door and starts to walk. Suddenly, Kin hears a noise: ‘Hey!’. One step back and she rolls down the wooden stairs. Her body hurts and now those steps are getting closer. There’s nothing she can do. ‘Kin, are you okay? It’s Debbie. I lost Oprah because of this blackout!’. Blackouts turns mad anyone.

Kleiton da Silva
Débora Azevedo
Heryzanya Ramalho
Francisco Cesar de Moura

THE INTERVIEW
The building’s door stood ajar stained of blood; he could see fingerprints of blood everywhere. The street was empty. He stopped next to the door and tried to peek but saw nothing. He came in feeling shiver on his bones. In the dark he felt figures moving around him. He tried to catch anything but without success and started to run for the place, desperate like a hurricane, trying to find someone real, but nobody was there, then he went back door totally afraid and he would never return to that place again. People in the building just peeped at him to do it and they kept seated waiting their time for the job interview.

Amsterdam Thiago de Lima
Jhonatan da Cruz

DIRTY JOB
He grabbed a knife and, while staring at the sharp blade, mumbled to himself: “Time has come”. Images from the moments before flashed across his mind and he found it hard to believe that what was once a celebration could have such disgusting outcome. “It’s a dirty job but I gotta do it. There’s no way out”. Cold Sunday night. Desert streets. Hoping to make it as quick and painless as possible, his wet hands finally held firmly the knife-handle. “I’ve put this off for too long. I'd better get this started now”. Steps coming from downstairs stopped him from the first move. Somebody approaching. “I’m not alone. Would somebody out there give me a hand and stop all this pain?”. Suddenly, his girlfriend walked through the kitchen door. Shocked, she said: “Unbelievable! Are you still doing the dishes?”.

Marília Caldas
Caci Pessôa
Ademir de Oliveira
Zilene de Castro

AS THE FIRST SCHOOL DAY
Falling on the ground, Labinnah, a lunatic, untied himself and went out of his cell, remembering what they’ve said: “this day is his last”. Two men down the corridor saw what had happened and, carrying syringes, approached the madman... He woke up and realized where he was: solitary confinement. In complete darkness, he came up with a bright idea and hid himself behind the door; when somebody opened it, after hours of anxiousness, a bloody scene began: he fiercely attacked his visitor – sadly, only when it was all done, he could see who had entered the room. “Mo- mother...?”.

Róbson Diniz
Benvinda Iê
Jonathan Rocha

HELLBOY
“What’s Heaven like?” Cora asked timidly to the angel standing next to her bed. Pleased, he said friendly: “It’s amazing, you don’t have to worry about anything”. Suddenly, the angel got even closer to her and laughed ironically with a disgusting face. Very scared, Cora asked abruptly: “What’s so funny?” Her poor heart trembled. “That’s simple”- he said - “That’s not where I’m gonna take you. So, do you already have your grave?’’. Then nobody could hear Cora’s horrifying scream as the angel cut her throat precisely and dragged her to hell.

Ellen Tomás
Hélciu Ferreira
Ingrid Braga
Thaís Gurgel

CATHY’S DEATH
Cathy’s eyes were afflicted by the panic that they showed. It was like she never had felt so scared before. And there alone knowing that in any moment he’ll find her and probably break her bones or make something worse. She didn’t know where she could go anymore; so, slowly, she went out of the bathroom and tried to find a way to flee from that house and maybe find someone that could help her. When she took the knob of the door he suddenly appeared and cut her hand out and she fell down. Cathy woke up tied in a chair and saw that the man was taking a knife to kill her, so she began to yell as loud as she could but nobody heard her. The man went and raised the knife and she just closed her eyes... tin tin tin tin she opened her eyes: it was 7:00 A.M. It was just a nightmare.

Wallyson de Souza
Emanuel Arquileu