minutes before . The only other item filled in was the first name . “ Bully ,” it said .
Sandy began to unzip the body bag . It was then she heard it . So distinct . Echoing throughout the building . Click-click . Click-click . Then something dragging along the hallway floor immediately above her , the moan of the elevator straining upwards . Doors sliding open . The elevator descending . A child ’ s voice . Then that sound . Again . Click-click . Click-click . A rotten smell wafted in the air .
Sandy zipped up the body bag . She ’ d check on it later . But for now , she just had to see who was about to show up .
Lori M . Myers is an award-winning writer of creative nonfiction , fiction , and plays . She is a Pushcart Prize nominee and a Broadway World Award nominee . Her works of horror have appeared in magazines , online , and in anthologies such as Bad Neighborhood and Transcendent .
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