Queen City Public Library

I had gotten a job at the local library, working at the front desk. The 1st floor was well, a nice open space for when they do children's theatre, by the front door was the front desk, and directly across from there were the computers, maybe 3 or 4, damn I can't remember. The basement lobby is well lit, filled with 12 computers at least. Then, near the end, there's 2 wooden doors, behind them, a long hallway of book cases, I'm talking maybe...60 rows, 3 book cases a row, stretching down this creepy stretch...only lit by 80s lightbulbs, you know, those dim ones that don't do shit, they got a closest full of them to the left of the wooden doors. To the point, I worked the late shift, stamping the books with the library emblem. It was the towns emblem actually, it was a wave of green, with the words in fancy modern letters "king". I got past the time by playing roblox on the computer. It's a game where you build places for people to play in, similar to minecraft, except this building game is complex. Beside my desk, is a piller separating me from the front door, then across from it is the basement staircase and a map of the library. I could live a job like this, 11.50 an hour, enough to take friends a night on the town for once. I was in the middle of having a heated discussion on the roblox forums when the library map fell off the wall. Startled to fuck, and frustrated I had to leave my desk, and the forums, to pick the damn thing up. I walked around the desk, and picked the map up, I studied it, looking at the detailed diagram. Just then, over the railing overlooking the basement stairwell, I heard a noise. It was weird, quick infact, sounded like a moan, no not sexual, god you freak, it was like, this distorted one, one that sounded computer made...wait a second, did I lock the door downstairs? If you should know, there is a fire exit down stairs, yes, we are not going to risk liabilities. I climbed the stair case to the landing, turning on the lights...turning on the lights...why won't they turn on? Weird, the usual horror story setting, but no, I got them on because I was switching on vents, not the lights. Gaah I'm such an idiot, I continue to the computer room. As I enter, I notice the 2 big doors at the end of the room are open, wide open, so now there is a ghost in the library? Psssh I'm not afraid of ghosts, so I walked in, but it wasn't right, It didnt feel right, but that didnt stop me from what I did see in through the books. Eyes, normal eyes, but they seemed tired, like they had been watching to much television. I couldnt see any more facial features, due to the fact that I ran out to the lobby freaking out, doing the forward run you do when you feel like someone behind you is trying to grab you. I ran upstairs, looking behind me, but th-SMACK...what, when was there a brick wall infront of the staircase, and the railing, what, this makes no sense. I looked behind me, the lights at the bottom flickered...off...the only thing that kept the stairwell lite was...the moonlight! There was a giant window above the stairwell, but how can I reach it. I steadied myself onto the railing, shimmying up the pillar, and clasping my shoes onto the slippery railing, scaling the brick wall. I reached the window, and began pushing it, I pushed it so easily, it felt like...paper? I ripped right through into the corridor with the bookcases, back where I saw the eyes. I looked behind me, basically a fake image of an window, but how is this possible. I ran out of the corridor, past the 2 big wooden doors, and up the staircase, sure enough, a big whole where the fake window is, but this dosnt make sense, it's like Im trapped in some kind of world. I went back down to the corridor, past the basement lobby, and studied the hole. As I pointed my flashlight around it, I felt someone pat my back. Shocked, I ever so slowly turned my head and saw him, the guy with the tired looking eyes. "Yea, weird stuff isn't it" He said with a snarled look. "Names buck, I know it's strange now, but I've been stuck here for about maybe, 20 years or so? Im so glad we have a newcomer" He chuckled. Newcomer!? I was so confused, but he took my wrist and led me down the hallway, past the 50th bookcase...wait, 50th? I thought there was only 50 bookcases here, so why am I now on bookcase 67. We kept going, past bookcases with signs that didnt even say english anymore, they just had gibberish on it, and the books were all white, like, painted white. We reached the end of the hallway, a musky smell hit my face hard. He said stay here, as he dissapeared behind the last bookcase. He never came back, like, I mean never, Its been 2 days, my watch has passed 12pm 2 times now, so that must mean either I've actually been here 2 days, waiting for some dude, or I'm dreaming. Its friday now, so that means about 2 days ago they would have noticed I'm missing, and come looking for me. I decided to get up, Im hungry, but I can walk it. Ive been walking now, passing the gibberish signs on the sides of the bookcases, counting back the rows, but it seems to go on forever. Ive gotten to the point where Im so sleep deprived, I eat shit, taking the floor and falling asleep.

I wake up, its Friday, exactly a month after my ordeal, Im in the hospital. They found me in a coma, under one of the computer tables, apparently there was carbon dioxide in the building, and the alarm was broken, so it didnt buzz. I guess it was all a dream, but since it was only a month, I got my job back, figuring it was all funny buisness my head put me through. I never took the night shift again, but as I came in to start my shift, everyone welcoming me back from the hospital, I pass the library map, and I chuckle. I make my way down the stairwell to the lobby and see the big 2 wooden doors, wide open. Now that I mention it to myself, I dont remember there being a bookcase corridor with wooden doors on the library map.