Another Monday Morning

You start to climb down the ladder into the manhole, but your handcuffed wrists make this a difficult task. The police car tears overhead, sirens screaming, making you jump.

You lose your balance.

You flail desperately for the ladder, but you miss and go tumbling down the manhole, spinning head-over-heels and crashing headfirst to the bottom. The crack of your neck breaking reverberates around the stone walls.