Table Of ContentShort stories collection
by amateur advanced-level
student-uiriters of RIKS Education
uuifh Iroda Saydazimova
S h o rt s to rie s c o lle c t io n
by a m a te ur a d v a n c e d -le v e l
student-w riters of R IK S E d u c a tio n
uiith Iroda Saydazimova
AMANDA'S STORY
by Sultonmurod Rasulov
(John)
My name is Amanda Nolan. I was living in a huge, mysterious
house for about 2 years, from the age of 16 to 18. To say honestly,
I did not really like the house owing to several reasons. One of the
reasons was that the house, we bought two weeks later after my
younger sister was born was completely isolated from the city
centre, chilly and foggy weather every day, creepy and strange
neighbours and lots more. In fact, there were only few people
living in that area, there were no big supermarkets, cinema,
theatres, restaurants, other entertaining facilities and even public
transports. I always asked my father why he had bought this
house, he always responded that he liked tranquility.
The second reason was that, by the claim of numerous people
living there, in the house, many suicides had been committed and
unexplainable deaths were revealed and obviously, that
bloodcurdling house was haunted by previous dwellers. However,
police officers assured us lots of times that the house was
absolutely safe for inhabitants and those claims of neighbours
were simply rumours. Afterwards, we definitely decided to move.
The third reason why I did not digest the house was that many
cruel things were constantly happening there, especially in the
bathroom, furnished with very old equipment and a big, shabby
and strange mirror. For example, whenever I was taking a bath, I
felt somebody breathing right behind my neck. Moreover, I heard
some odd noises there, such as footsteps or something that had
fallen down onto the floor. Nothing would remain in the place
where it had been put in the bathroom, it either vanished
miraculously or fell down.
So, days later, I curiously but apprehensively tried to investigate a
search for some clues and learn what indeed happened here and
why this house looked so much horrendous. Several times I had a
conversation about it with my parents, but none of them agreed
with the fact that spooky things were happening there. They told
me that all of it was my odd imagination.
One day, my parents left me alone at home. I was lying in my bed,
reading my favourite book written by Agatha Christie and heard
the sound of running water in the bathroom. I did not know what
to do, I simply waited it to stop but it would not. I tremulously got
up, went to the bathroom with my hands trembling and my pulse
abnormally beating. I finally entered the bathroom, I couldn’t
believe my eyes, there was a terrifying silhouette of a woman right
behind the bath curtain, the strange silhouette of a female, looking
straight at me and whispering something. I immediately moved the
curtain, but there was nobody, it was like the silhouette had
disappeared. What is more horrible, the door closed itself, the
lights turned off and I virtually died from scare, my eyes were full
of tears, shocked, I somehow managed to open the door and went
outside the house. I cried hysterically, I cried a lot, until an old
woman came to me. She asked why I was crying and I explained
everything to her...
The Conversation
“What happened, my daughter” she asked, to whom I explained
everything like it was. I asked her to tell anything she knew or was
hiding about previous hosts. I was in a complete shock, nobody
understood me, helped me and even my parents. Compassionate,
she began to tell me about one horrible case.
Rachel Sagan’s case
It was the year of 1988, a girl named Rachel was very attractive,
sociable and a lot of boys wanted to conquer her heart. She lived
with her mother in that house and she did not know who her father
was, because her mother kept it secret, young girl was not
supposed to know about it. Her mother was a middle-aged lady,
quite tall and serious. She was too religious and from the very
childhood of Rachel, she had been nurturing her with very strict
rules. Rachel was prohibited to go outside with friends, get
acquainted with boys at school or talk to them. She only had to
read the Holy Bible every day and learn all the sayings from it.
Friends of hers called her a ‘religious fanatic’. She was docile and
fragile.
She believed in everything-in fact, she was very naive. As she
grew older by the age of 18, she had made acquaintance with a
boy named Bill. However, her mother did not know about that,
otherwise she would literally kill herself or Rachel. But still,
Rachel was tired of that kind of monotonously boring life so, she
started to live a more normal life, like everybody else. She went to
different parties, had the first kiss, she really, fully tasted the life.
One day, Rachel’s mother found out that her daughter lost her
virginity because of Bill, and also learnt that instead of going to
the church, she went to a party. As a result of this fuming anger,
abhorrence and absolute shock, she could hardly breathe, she got
rattled because she thought that the way her daughter acted was
genuine disloyalty towards her religion. Then, she lost her cool
and simply could not bear it, as it was such a tragic thing to her.
She thought that the only way out would be to kill her daughter
and herself.
She was ready to die, she enounced some sayings from The Bible
and got ready. While Rachel was taking a bath, she entered the
bathroom strangely, said to her daughter:
“Pray, my Rachie, pray”.
Crying, she pierced the knife to her stomach, saying hysterically,
shouting:
“You do not know what wrong thing you have done, forgive me
my girl, forgive”.
Rachel had already lost consciousness, she sank under the water.
Rachel died. Her mother crying was telling:
“My poor girl, poor girl”.
While the dead body was lying under the water of the shower, not
breathing, she regained temper, burnt all her clothes , all
belongings, went to her bedroom and hung herself.
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Amanda’s action
After such a scary talk with an old lady, I decided to find out why
Rachel was haunting me. I browsed various websites about ghosts.
I was terribly scared, I fetched the Bible and had a torch with me
in case the lights would turn off. I was sitting in the bathroom the
whole day, waiting for her for five days and wanted to put a halt to
it.
One day, I was lying on my bed, trying to forget her as things
were definitely getting better, I thought she completely
disappeared. But suddenly, I again heard the noise down there in
the bathroom, but that was the voice of my mother. I, with my
father went there, I could not open the door, but father kicked it
and we saw my Mom, lying dead in the bathroom, a lot of blood
on the floor and the note written on the wall, written by my
Mom’s blood:
“I’ll get hold of you too
Rachel”
Two years later now, I am in a psycho asylum, writing this book
for you ‘new settles’ in that house. My father died of a heart attack
after that incident. I want to say one thing “RUN, OR YOU OR
YOUR MOTHER WIL DIE!!!”
Chances
by Makhmud Shukurov
(Max)
In galaxy Z51 there was discovered a race, if to be more precise,
WE were discovered by a race of creatures who called themselves
"Time Sovereigns". They came to the Earth only with good
intentions and right ideology. They helped to the human race,
invested a great deal to the protection system, helped people
improve their weapons. To this time, human race had become
much smarter, wiser and all wars and internecine had stopped long
time ago. Those weapons which humanity had were only for
protection. One of the types of such weapon was D17. This bomb
was completely different from human-made nuclear bombs, it had
the range that was larger than all the weapons humanity had
possessed. In fact, it could destroy the Sun with a single shot, so
there would not be left a single, smallest fraction of its.
All this power was intended only for protecting purpose, human
race did not know what to protect with this kind of weapons, but
Time Sovereigns knew why...
The Main ability of ‘TS’ (Time Sovereigns) was travelling
through time. They could travel into the future and past. They
knew that whole living was doomed to death, they knew that one
day, time would not help them and future would not be on their
side. Till that time, they could travel to the future and know the
result of war, TS were wise and knew that with wars, they could
not get enlightened and it would not be fruitful, they knew how
enemy would attack and they could easily protect, then
subsequently destroy invaders, so they would not be able to
continue their savage and wild actions. They could, with no
difficulties move to the future. However, they could not simply
move to the past and come back. If they got to the past, they
would lose all connections with their reality so it safeguarded the
state of paradox, but they could not get to their real future,
because each time, they traveled to the past, they created a new
future, concurrently, their reality did not vanish, it continued to
exist without them.
After supplying some races with weapons and advanced
technology of communications, they could negotiate between each
other, they went back to their galaxy,-"Home".
TS's appearance was nearly similar to the human's and their
average life expectancy also was similar to humans’.
They were travelling on a large oval blue space ship. It had a
transvirtual engine, which means it could use a teleport. In a flash,
