Six Minutes of Glass

The tower lift stalled and one passenger walked out of it. You write the report, and everyone who votes on your job wants it to say something else.

claustrophobic · wry · close · uneasy · Medium, about 30 scenes

You play

Jules, Jules, thirty-two, evening manager of Orme Point for Calder Property Services, living in the tower's B3 staff flat, who was on the level 23 service landing when the lift stalled and saw Nell Aster take the stairs

How it begins

"19:42. Lift stopped at level 23. Eight passengers." Beatrice Carrow reads it twice over her wine at the service counter, her lips moving on the number, and says to Jules, kindly, "Seven, I think." Jules runs the evening shift at Orme Point and lives in the staff flat under its car park. When the lift stopped, Jules was on the twenty-third-floor landing, where no resident is allowed, watching its rear doors open.