A Day I Will Not Forget

A Day I Will Not Forget (February 26th, 1993) by Patricia Tagliaferro (a Short Story Contest entry) 

I was eating lunch at my desk.   I heard and felt a loud rumble.  Had a transformer blown up?  There was smoke and we evacuated.  We put scarves or ripped shirt sleeves around our soot-covered faces.  It was both scary, yet calm.  The lights went out.  We walked down 86 floors in the dark.  Six people died that day.  The rest were safe.  I don’t like the dark anymore.