Monday 14 December 2015

Story identification: short story about an elevator that takes a rider to hell

Wow, this stuck in my head for more than thirty years... have a look at this story: Josie and the Elevator, from the May 1980 edition of Omni magazine.



https://archive.org/stream/omni-magazine-1980-05/OMNI_1980_05#page/n1/mode/2up



Spoilt girl, prone to outbursts of temper, is taken to a sort of hell which is a corrupted version of her own life, after damaging the most precious possession of a sentient elevator in her apartment complex. She spends many years in hell without recollection of her former life, and finally returns to Earth after getting a chance to make amends with the elevator.

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