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Submitted to Contest #58
The Elevator By Jim Keane Todd rolled up the sleeve of his blue suit, checking his silver watch, and tapped the close button in the elevator several times like a Morse code operator. Hurry and close before someone else comes. He had five minutes to get to the forty-second floor for his interview with Vericom, and if the elevator door closed without somebody else slowing it down, he would make it. The number forty-two glowed on the elevator panel. Police sirens wailed outside the elevator, and down the hallway, a woman screamed from the...
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