[ WP ] You suddenly find your doors and windows wo n't open . You log in to Reddit and find the most upvoted thread with over a million comments and just two hours old `` Help , my door is stuck , any tips to get it open ? ''

Day 5: Since I've got nothing else to do at this point I've decided to start a journal to record The Event, as I've come to call it. My residence lies in a corner on the fourth floor of a small apartment building. The doors and windows have all become seemingly impenetrable. Water still works, but power went out this morning, and the internet went down two days ago, severing my access the reddit thread that had been my only connection to outside world. Phones only left busy signals, emails got no response nor did I receive any, all other websites had remained unchanged since the event began, seemingly frozen at the start of The Event. The single reddit thread was the only proof the world outside my apartment was still there, however at this point it was a blessing more than anything that I lost access, not a single answer had been found on how to escape. 
 
 Accounts of failure and cries of help were all that populated the thread by that point. Fists, axes, guns, hell some even had been able to attempt acid, all reported to have zero effect on our newly found prisons. Fire had been the worst to read. So many last cries of poor souls panicking as fire destroyed all except its intended target, countless typing out their despair and confusion to complete strangers in the last moments before the fire took them. Witnessing the last thoughts of so many scroll by on my screen should have horrified me, should have brought fear, should have inspired any type of reaction other than what I felt: nothing. The world outside was treated simply as a fantasy, the cries and horrors I read brought no more emotion than a movie might. Perhaps my only way to cope was to detach my mind as my much body was from the outside world. 
 
 My sliding glass doors are my only portal to the outside, as both my windows look at nothing but the brick wall of the adjacent apartment building. The view of the world outside disturbs me more than anything else. It seems to have been poorly made to look normal. I see the building across the street, however all the windows are pitch black. I see the trees along the sidewalk blow in the wind, yet the motion seems to repeat over and over. I have seen nothing living, no animals, no people, not even an insect fly by. The weather is always the same, a bright day with a spattering of clouds. The part that has stunned is the progression of everything has stopped, the sun no longer moves, leaves no longer fall, clouds no longer dissipate but rather seem to follow circular patterns. Time seems to have stopped outside my walls. 
 
 Day 6: I have made an exciting discovery, I heard a faint tapping on the wall connecting my apartment to my neighbor Conner's unit. I screamed as loud as I could that I could hear him and got a muffled response that sounded like him screaming as well, but it was faint and unintelligible. However, his tapping resumed with more vigor and I soon responded. We both just kept pounding the wall I while, relishing in the slightest form of communication with another human. After we both seemingly tired ourselves and came down for our rapture, he seemingly started tapping with intent and in a pattern. 8 taps, then a pause, followed by 9 taps. He repeated this over and over and I sat there raking my brain as to why. I did n't know morse but was pretty sure that it was n't that. It was obviously an attempt at communication, but how. 
 
 Finally I came to the realization what he was saying. *Hi*. The number of taps was correlating to position in the alphabet, 8 for H and 9 for I. I quickly responded with `` Hello'', quickly regretting my decision to choose such a long word. However tedious it was, despite us saying nothing but short celebrations, this conversation was the most cherished moment of my life. I plan to speak often to Connor, as I have little else to do, and he seems to be on board as well, since I now have this escape I'm not sure I will keep my writing up. 
 
 END- I have more of this story planned and might come back later to finish, but I do n't have the time right now, first time writing here, or pretty much anywhere, so any feedback would be appreciated.
