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The Elevator

Submitted to Contest #295

I’ve been coming home from work around 7 p.m. every day, every week, month, and year. I have been doing this for seven years now, ever since I moved into this apartment down on East 81st Street in Upper East Side after my divorce, and never have I noticed this. I live on the top floor, and, as usual, I walk through the glass turnstile, give the concierge a fleeting but friendly nod, walk up to the elevator, press the call button, wait for the “ding”, the elevator doors open with a sliding and grinding sound, I step in and my index finger fin...

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