Crawl Space

By F. Poj

A horror short story. Frankie, an architect downgraded to building surveyor by the downturn after 9/11, finds himself in downtown Buffalo on a huge job. An abandoned school building. Frankie is not too sure he is alone in the building. He suddenly finds himself trapped in the darkest and deepest guts of the old building. He will have to fight his own phobias to survive through this dark, maze.

• Language: English
• Publisher: F. Poj
• Release date: Feb 10, 2013
• ISBN: 9781301895526

F. Poj

A new independent writer. A nomad, who has lived in Buenos Aires, Boston, Miami and Costa Rica.

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Crawl Space

by F. Poj

Editor: Sarah Billington

Cover Design and Artwork: F. Poj

Copyright © 2013 F.Poj

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Crawl Space

"Crawl Space, Architectural Definition: a shallow, unfinished space with a dirt floor beneath the lowest level of a building. Created especially for access to plumbing and wiring. This space is accessible by crawling, its clearance being less than human height."

It was just a job like many others; an old, abandoned public school near downtown Buffalo. Even only a couple of blocks away from City Hall, Buffalo could be a pretty desolate place in winter, almost a ghost town. The City was going to turn this old school into an office building and they needed updated floor plans.

'Everything,' said Laura on the e-mail. 'Plans of every floor, roofs, basements, attics, and crawl spaces.'

Frankie had been freelancing for Laura as a building surveyor for years now. After 9/11 many Architecture firms went down and Frankie had been laid off like thousands of young architects. He was fast and accurate with CAD though; so he scored this opportunity to do free lance building surveys for Laura. She charged handsome fees for these jobs, and paid her surveyors good money, and on time. Frankie enjoyed the freedom, the traveling, and the pay check. Flight to a city for three or four days, sketch and measure, flight back home to draw the whole thing on CAD, e-mail it,