March 2025 Furious Fiction

Those guys at Furious Fiction are at it again! This time, they wanted a story that must include at least TWO characters in an elevator or sauna and the words STICK, THUMP, and VALUABLE.

My story unfolds within the confined space of an aging elevator. Eli, a man familiar with being misjudged, shares the space with a woman who seems to have stepped out of a different era. The tension is immediate, laced with unspoken assumptions.

As the elevator ascends, reality begins to slip. Desperate and disoriented, the woman claims she’s been trying to get home.

What begins as an awkward encounter morphs into something much stranger and unsettling, and with every floor, the mystery deepens, pulling the reader toward an ending that will linger long after the doors close.

We’ll see how it goes! Results later this month!

R