The Blonde

… 39 seconds

On the fifth floor, the elevator doors opened, and Kelly White was screaming, she knew she was, but she couldn’t hear sound anymore, and all she could do was fall forward, and she collided with skin and plastic and she saw the ice tumble and scatter across the carpet and heard “Jesus!”

And she smiled, because she was worried about his Diet Coke, and here was a man to save her, finally, but it was too late, and …

And then it was over for Kelly White.

Which wasn’t even the name she had been born with.