The back lift

Massachusetts · United States · Church

The fifth floor is a small convent and students are not allowed up there. The back lift sometimes takes you there anyway.

The back lift at this school in Everett, Massachusetts has a reputation among the students, and the reason is where it takes them.

The fifth floor is a small convent, off limits to students. The person who wrote this account had been up there once in three years.

Get into the back lift alone and it will sometimes take you to the fifth floor.

The account is careful to say that no nun was ever murdered up there, though several have died, which is a rare piece of restraint in a school story and the reason this entry is kept.

A lift that goes to a floor nobody pressed is a mechanical fault with an obvious explanation, and it is also the single most effective way to frighten a teenager in a Catholic school.

The convent floor is a residence for the sisters. The school is in use.

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Where is The back lift located?

The back lift is in Massachusetts, United States.