A Telephone Call
The protagonist is waiting for a call from a young man. And she is wishing that the telephone will ring. At some point she had called him at work and he tells her that he is busy. He promises to call her at 5:00 pm. In their short conversation, he calls her darling twice. And she is thinking that he must care for her.
She prays, pleads and makes all kinds of deals with God, if only He would let the young man call her. She wants to know if God is punishing her because she did something bad. Desperately, she wants the telephone to ring. She moves through a range of emotions, and sometimes she wants the guy dead because he isn’t calling her.
The story is situational and based on the trappings of the mind and the work of emotions of a person based on a single phone call. The story’s tone is set to anxiety and waiting at the edge of one's seat, for what the outcome of the call can be.
Adapted from Goodreads
Image - American Telephone & Telegraph, Modern telephone service, 1920
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