Horror and Thriller Flash Fiction posted October 31, 2024


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A horror flash fiction

Red Stains

by Taeyeong Cha

 

Showering on the weekend when parents are out for a dinner party is one of the best things that can happen in my repugnant, disgusting, repeating days. The only time when I truly feel emancipated from all the restrictions, that control. Mist rises with a cozy feeling, as if I’m in heaven, with clouds and the soft touch of angels. My body is relaxed, almost floating. The only thing that was off was a bit of flickering light and constant water drop outside the shower booth. The mist silently fills the space.

The light weakens. Something isn’t right. Some old, sick, gruesome building that I’m living in. The water gets colder. Each drop of the angel's kiss now turns into a sharp stab of spears. My focus drifts to the eerie water drop outside, small yet loud and clear like a disturbing emergency siren. Goosebumps come up. With its final dying breadth, the light fades off.

The screeching horrible scream erupts from the floor above. I immediately swing open the shower door. The water completely stops and that beautiful mist now turns into suffocating poison gas. Slowly, my breadth gets faster. I panic. I hurry and reach for the doorknob, I slip and fall. Tears fill my eyes. But there’s something more–bloody and damp. Drop by drop, it falls onto my face.

Footsteps. It’s her parents, hands tinged with dark red. 

“Honey? Are you there?”

Only silence and the sound of a constant liquid drop remain.




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