Next Stop Nowhere
Unknown
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Description
Dick Purcell wrote Next Stop, Nowhere, a science fiction tale that ran in Imagination in August 1956. Four folk step into a lift in the Kendall Building, bound for a suite of doctors' offices. The car jams between the sixth and seventh floors and will not budge.
The operator vows to climb through the roof trap and work the car by hand. Peggy Wilson, a scared young woman, fears the wait. Walter Maltby nurses a three-week toothache and low hopes. Purcell asks what lies between floors, where a lift should never stop. The tale turns a dull jam into a door on the unknown. Short and sly, it plays on a fear all city folk share.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Unknown |
|---|---|
| COLLECTION | BOOKS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 19 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | Public Domain |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | Project Gutenberg |