Monday is Double Deadline Day

...so Dusty D dashed off to do a bout of research in the Archives for one last thing.

Man, is that place creepy when you're alone there.

Dusty D busily checked the microfilm for her target date and stared determinedly at the tiny text. Now, DD is a steely-eyed, iron-stomached, copper-toed realist. I don't cotton to all that ghost nonsense, nosir.

Not too much, anyways.

DD ignored what appeared to be flickers out of the corner of her eye (just my imagination) and a feeling of being watched (bah, indigestion or something).

Then the microfilm drawer closed by itself.

Which it has never done in my frequent use of it in the past.

"Ha ha, how odd!" Dusty D cheerfully thought while leisurely gathering her things at about 95 mph. "Must just be a hidden spring or something, yes, that's it of course," she meditated, while setting the security code in a blaze of fingers and springing like a springbok up the steps. "Funny thing, that."