Short Thriller Stories

Ignore the screaming… I hear my boss’ voice in my ear repeatedly. Ignore the screaming… It’s hard to focus on work when all I hear is blood curdling screams, I continue typing, the clack of the keys fill the room, the bright blue light hues of the screen hit my face, causing my face to aglow through the darkroom. Every now and then my thoughts are altered from loud roars of wails, Ignore the screaming. I hear again this time turning away from the computer and with a creak as I carefully open the front door to the station. Shutting with a click, I turn to face the ominous forest. Darkness…Is all I see Silence…Is all I hear The rays of the flashlight helps pave the way on the public path I start shaking, passing each and every tree, the dirt gravel kicking up as I walk, I head towards the high pitched yelps of pain fearfully. I stop as I take the quicker route off the path, the silence is deafening, hurting my ears. My shoes attacked the dew off the ground, bringing it along. Halting suddenly, I start feeling my surroundings spin. “Stop…” I say to myself. “Calm down.” I start back up again, walking, shaking, spinning. It feels like an eternity, the trees stand as still as the stumps themselves, I stop again, in attempt to calm my thoughts “She’s in trouble.” I claim “she could need help.” I shake my head, another scream interrupting, not closer, not farther, I’m getting nowhere like this. I continue, deep breaths show in the air as I huff and puff nervously, my heart beats so loudly, I hear it. The sound flows through the air along with the blood rushing through my veins. I stop again to look around, it becomes apparent that I am so utterly alone, in a public and innocent park. How could such a place scare me so much? What could cause the lively park to go so quiet that one might just go insane? My teeth chatter, a symbol to keep moving, the weird feeling of the park’s forest took over completely, it becomes clear, as if it weren’t before, there is something wrong here, a presence lives here. Ignore the screams. I hear his voice once again. I manage to be so lost in thought, I’m closer. Way closer than I should be by now. It should've been a longer walk, how did I get lost in thought? I kick a rock and tumble forward violently, hurting my knee. I am met with a pure throbbing pain in the front of my knee, my scream matches hers, a stream of pearls run down my face fiercely. I take a minute rocking back and forth before I stand only to feel the instability of my leg now, my face still filled with warm tears that seem to never be going away. I manage to keep walking, this time with a strong limp, my right hand on my right knee as I limp comforting myself. My other hand controls the flashlight, not wishing to let it go Ignore the screams. I shake the thought out of my mind “She needs help.” I protest as if talking to someone else. I get nearer, the screams getting closer and closer. I yell out, seeming close enough that she'd hear. “Hey!” I scream back. “I'm here to help! Where are you?" I speak looking around me, complete nothingness “Please! If you can hear me ma'am come towards me if you can” I yell …I'm met with silence, picking up the pace to the center of the park soon seeing the clear opening. I take a deep breath, a wave of emotions hit me as I hear the screams again, finally being able to turn my flashlight to see the woman. My breathing becomes labored hearing another chilling wail, this time to the bone I spin my flashlight to her, a tall woman stands next to a bench hunched over in what looks like sorrow. She seems to be ghostly…almost otherworldly. She's thin, and is wearing a cloak-like cover on her. My breath hitches, it’s hard to breathe. “Hey…ma'am” I manage to get out my breath matching my heartbeat, irregular The woman suddenly turns quickly to me, floating, her eyes a pitch of red closed shut tightly, her cheeks appear to match from the bloody tears she cries, her mouth hanging wide open as if her jaw has been dislocated. Her skin, a horrible shade of bright pale with her lank hair flowing, hanging past her back, she screams a scream that can’t compare to the others before. My flashlight flickers off unwillingly. The scream strikes me harshly like a bullet filling me with such a dooming feeling. fight or flight takes over I turn and run, as fast as I can through the forest, streams of water blur my vision, I hear the screams behind me. I start shaking violently, a wave of adrenaline,I run a little faster, not caring so much about my knee, I run past the trees and get on the path, my memory taking over. My thoughts drift to my family, to my friends, to my partner Ignore the screams, he told me…my boss, he warned me, why didn’t I get that before? He warned me to ignore the screams and I didn’t…Or I couldn’t? I couldn’t stop myself, she hypnotized me to come to her, or was it in my own will?...How would I be so dumb? He gave me orders, I didn’t follow, this is my fault. Wait...Is it *my* fault? Is all this my fault? I keep thinking my mind is running a mile a minute as I finally see the station in the distance, just.. You didn’t Ignore the screams I hear his words again, they aren’t the same this time… You should have ignored them, I warned you “No…” I whisper to myself, trying to quiet my thoughts Another bone chilling scream shakes me to the core, dizziness fills me, her screams are louder than ever before…