Hi, this is Daniel Foytek and I'm the writer for today's episode of The Lift, Broken.

If you enjoy the story, you can find more of my work at 9th Story.com.

Find more episodes of the lift at Victoria's Lift.com.

What is time to the dead or the lost?

When reality breaks, time and place have no meaning a normal mind can grasp.

Few understand that we are all energy expressing itself in different frequencies, jumbled and twisted, overlapping

all the time, but to the observant, distinct, and unique.

Do you hear me?

I am Victoria.

Once upon a time there was a place that became lost.

It is a place where story and substance combine, where the reality of story shapes thoughts,

where fantasy becomes tangible. This is that place.

Those who find themselves here are here to make a choice.

The choices you made in the past don't matter.

But the choice you make now is the one that will set your feet. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1901.

The nine-story building sat waiting for the visitor, unassuming, solid, and until recently, abandoned.

It had a definite presence.

Nikola Tesla stood before it, experiencing the strange sensation that the structure was somehow declaring itself to him.

That made him wonder, if it could announce itself, if it could make its presence known, could it also...

He turned from the building and watched as a woman approached, pushing a baby carriage.

Excuse me, he said in his thick Serbian accent.

I have not been in Pittsburgh for many years.

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