Here is your prompt. Simple, eh? Looks like a telephone…but is it? Rather, is it a conventional telephone sitting there on the pavement? How did it get there? To what is it connected? To whom is it connected? If it rings, who will answer it?
We read some fantastic stories last week. Thank you Kira, Allie, Kevin, and Jennifer for sharing your stories. Please come back this week and give us another tale! There’s plenty of room for you to join them as well, so give us your best 100 words right here in the comments, or at your web home with a link back here. We can’t wait to read your story!
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One call. Two questions. Three minutes.
To any deceased person from any time in history.
It was an intriguing offer, yet the decision had rendered Angela paralyzed ever since she stumbled across this ancient telephone in the corner of her local bodega. So weird that she’d never seen it before. It wasn’t well hidden – just discretely tucked between the cat litter and laundry soap. Was the sign just a joke? Would she get a shock if she touched it? There was only one way to find out. Angela slowly raised the receiver to her ear and cautiously whispered, “Grandma”.