Trapped In My Husband’s Golden Cage
Twelve more steps straight, junction pillar on the left at meter twenty, the access door three meters past it, the latch at shoulder height on the right side of the frame.
Twelve steps…Pillar. Three steps…Latch.
My hand found it in the dark.
Cold metal, the weight of a door that had not been opened often, a slight resistance in the mechanism from disuse. I pressed the release, put my shoulder into it, pushed through.