THE DRAWER THAT OPENED BY ITSELF

     

  

   A widow woman bought a chest of drawers in a shop of antiquities and met the photo of a man inside a drawer.

    The woman left the unknown photo in the same drawer and went to sleep thinking to come back to the shop next day and return the photo, but she woke up in the middle of the night with the drawer opening sound. She lighted the lamp and saw the photo on the floor near her bed.

    She housed the photo, turned off the light and tried to sleep again. And then the drawer opened by itself for the second time.

    The woman lighted the lamp and the photo was near her pillow. She put the photo in the drawer and closed it firmly saying:

    -Stay there inside!

    But the drawer opened in front of her and an unknown voice answered:

    -Only if you stay here with me!

    In that moment the bottom drawer also opened and the voice of the husband that had died screamed:

    -Back away from the chest of drawers of my wife, damned soul! Or I will take you to the hell and return you to the devil!

   (Osmar Batista Leal)