#343. TRAPPED – A Flash Fiction

Never in my wildest dreams, had I ever thought that a day that would start off like any other day, would transpire into THE day that I would never forget in my life.

I swiped out my identity card marking the end of a long day’s work, stepped inside the office lift to go home. Usually it would take just a minute for the lift to halt at the parking basement, even if it stops at every floor and loads in people.

But, neither the lift stopped at any floor to pick up people nor it halted in the basement. Even after three minutes, it didn’t stop and I couldn’t make it to.

I panicked when the alarm/call button didn’t work and my phone didn’t pick up any signal. When all my efforts to open the lift turned futile and my plight to get out went unnoticed even after two…