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NIGHTTALE · EPISODE 1

The Fourth Floor

a short horror story

An apartment block at night under a full moon. Every window on the fourth floor is dark, except for a pale face in one of them.

I got home late again.11:47 PM.

The lobby was empty. It always is, this late.

The elevator button panel. Seven is lit. There is no button for four.

Seven. Same as every night.

Our building has no fourth floor.The landlord says it's just superstition.

The elevator floor display, counting up.

The elevator stopped.

4

The elevator doors slide open onto a dim hallway. Someone is standing at the far end.

Someone was standing at the end of the hall.

I pressed CLOSE.

The door close button, pressed again and again.

The doors didn't move.

The hallway. Each time the lights flicker out, the figure is closer.

The lights flickered.

Every time they went out, it was closer.

It wasn't walking.

Then the lights went out completely.

I could hear it breathing.

Right in front of me.

DING

Seventh floor.

My hallway. My door. My lights.

I didn't look back. I looked in the elevator mirror instead.

The narrator's reflection in the elevator mirror. A second, pale face slowly appears over their shoulder.

There were two of us.

END

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