Natalie Takes the Elevator

Fiction by Kate Racculia

All these years, Viola has been waiting in the elevator. Natalie knows this is impossible—or at least highly improbable—and yet it’s true: when the doors part, Viola Fabian, the woman herself, is standing inside the small tarnished-brass box as if she’s been locked within for the past twenty years, whiling away the hours since 1977 until Natalie arrived with a wish to descend.

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Kate Racculia is a writer and researcher, living the sweet life in Somerville, Mass and working on her second novel.  Her first, This Must Be the Place, was published by Henry Holt & Company in summer 2010.