Sealed Door in Abandoned Subway

We Found A Sealed Door In The Abandoned Subway, And Something Knocked Back

I realized too late that the fresh welding marks on the service hatch weren’t there to keep people out,

but to keep something in. My cousin Jay and I were mapping the old tunnel system

under the city, the sector closed off since the flooding in the nineties. We were deep,

maybe four miles in, when we found the door. It was heavy industrial

steel, painted a bright, jarring yellow amidst the grey sludge. No handle.

Just a small, slide-open viewing port at eye level. Jay, being the idiot

he is, slid it open and shone his flashlight through. He froze.