20151116

Day 560

Her job makes every employee sign in and out with a camera linked to a keypad.
It's a simple yet effective way of keeping track of who exactly was in at what time.
You type in your unique employee code and it takes a photo of you whenever you arrive.
Every time she typed hers in at the end of a night shift the camera seemed to glitch.
Showed the exit door behind her wide open but every time she turned around it was shut.

Tonight was different though, tonight she decided that when her shift ended at 3AM she'd
try something new, try to get through the door just to see if it was real.
As she finished typing in her code she noticed the door swinging open on the screen.
She began to step backwards, eyes fixed to the image.
She expected to walk into the door but she didn't.

Her image on the screen showed her passing straight through the open door and vanishing.
Breaking eye contact from the monitor she looked around and saw that she was still in the
entry room and behind her was an identical keypad showing that she was still by an open door.
It all looked the same here but the wrong way round, the numbers were all backwards.
The door to the reception area was on the opposite side too.

A colleague walked in and smiled at her but his mouth was upside down, his eyes sideways.
His speech was a garbled screech that no human should have been able to produce.
When she didn't reply he repeated what he had said, louder until his words were just screams.
Panicking she walked backwards through the door until her back hit a wall.
The door swung gently closed and her colleague walked through the door, voice a garbled screech.


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