Body Flicker Novels & Stories

Are you ready to get started, Aphrodite? "Of course, I'm ready," replied Claire while pressing the 'start' button. But suddenly, Claire felt like everything was shaking, like an earthquake had occurred. Panicked, Claire gripped the handle of her chair. The monitor screen started flickering erratically. The scanner sensor of the round camera was also flickering. Claire then felt herself being drawn towards the flickering screen. The pull was so strong that she had to grab onto the edge of the table.

He wished for the condition to return to normal, yet, the situation is still the same as previous. Fluorescent lights along the hallway flickered with audible clicks before resuming their steady illumination once again. The lighting in this place was poor, and not all the lamps were well-function. Some of them are flicker multiple times before suddenly switching off. This light set is inducing fear in Khairul's heart. He gulped his saliva. "Johan?"

So, I stayed. Hour four was the hardest. The urge to blink became a form of torture. My eyes felt like they were filled with hot sand. I learned to "micro-blink"—closing one eye while keeping the other fixed on the glass, then switching. It was a rhythmic, exhausting dance. Every time I slipped, even for a second, I would see its fingers curl over the edge of the medicine cabinet, or see its torso lean out of the frame like a man stepping through a window.

But before I could respond, a sharp beep echoed through the room, throwing me out of the gazing trance. Shit. One monitor flickered. Shit shit shit! Then another. I turned back to the screens. “Axel?” Brielle asked, brows cocked in confusion as she watched my fingers move rapidly. But no matter how fast I typed in the codes, the monitors flickered like it had a mind of its own. And before I knew what was happening, I watched in panic as each monitor turned static and black. One. After. The other. My blood ran cold as I wracked through my hair with strings of curses escaping under my heaving breath.

I stayed focused on the space where the symbol had been, even though it was gone. Because I could still feel it. Watching. Measuring. Then the lights flickered. Once. Just once. A few guests laughed nervously, thinking it was nothing. A technical issue. A coincidence. But I don’t live in coincidence anymore. Neither does Daniil. Neither does Ivan. The second flicker lasted longer. And the temperature in the hall shifted, not physically in a way most people would notice, but enough for instinct to register before logic does. Daniil didn’t move.

Almost safe. I almost believed the worst was over. Then something shifted. Small. Subtle. Like the air tilted. A chill without cold. I frowned. Cullen felt it instantly. “What’s wrong?” he whispered. “I don’t know,” I said softly. “I just… feel weird.” Before he could respond— The lights flickered. Once. Twice. And the mark on my wrist burned— Just once.

Monitors flickering. Her breath caught. “That’s him.” Jax. Bare-chested, bruised, wires running into his spine. His eyes were open but unfocused. A machine pulsed behind him — feeding data into his skull. A voice off-screen said, “Begin the simulation.” Jax’s body convulsed. His breathing hitched. And then his eyes snapped open, glowing that same faint amber she’d seen in the tunnels. The video glitched — then zoomed out. Another figure stepped into the frame.

Her hands and legs spasm. She struggles to get up from the wooden floor, stumbling back down, the darkness in the room is overwhelming. A small ray of light coming from the window situated in the corner enables her to see. She crawls to the corner chasing the light beam. Her heart skips a beat as fear creeps in. What am I doing here? God help me! Creaks trigger her adrenaline. The door opens as a result. Oh No! She is petrified, someone enters the room, the tapping effect produced by stilettos closing in. Everything becomes vivid once the light goes on.

During that time Rain held my head up with one hand while the other was on my shoulder. "What happened?" He asked worriedly when I calmed down. "Nothing" I pushed him away and stepped down and went to check on Eliane, thankfully she was still sleeping. "That didn't look like nothing" I bit my tongue to stop a nasty reply, he sounded genuinely worried. "It is nothing, it's called Ocular Migraine, I occasionally have static or flickering blind spots in my vision, It's related to my migraine." "If it happens occasionally, why were you panicking?"

My stomach turned. “They’re already testing against us,” I whispered. “Shit,” Niko said. “Close it. Now.” My cursor moved to exit. A sharp tremor snapped through my right hand. The mouse jerked, sending the cursor skittering wildly across the screen before I wrestled it back. Heat flooded the base of my skull so fast my vision pixelated at the edges. The screen flickered. For a heartbeat, text scrolled at the bottom. UNEXPECTED OBSERVER DETECTED.