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STORY STARTER
Submitted by Talon
Your significant other frantically calls you. As the call continues, you notice the person on the other end of the line sounds just like them, but the way they speak is slightly off in such a way that it brings an unsettling feeling...
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The sun was roaring directly overhead, and even a blind man would know it. This day was a scorcher, and the girls had planned to spend it in the pool. Just after 9 I told Natalie that I’d needed to spend some time at the office, and her eyes burned into me hotter than the sun. It was a Saturday, a family day, but she knew that this deal was huge.
Microsoft was building a new Tampa office and lik...
TW: CUSSING, BLØØD
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It came through
Hello hello?
Now this is the way you feel
The why you cry
When you lie awake at night.
Hello hello?
Oh fuck,
Hello.
Help!
Help help!
I need help!
A call,
The call,
She called,
I answered
And to my displeasure
A scream
Relieved
In pure
Deceived
Pain.
Oh shit oh shit,
Oh hell oh wit,
Are you oka...
One ring.
‘Let it ring.’
Two rings.
‘I hate him.’
Three rings.
‘Well… maybe a small—“
“Hello?” She says, her voice shakes lightly. Adrenaline? Maybe. It’s been nearly a week, her husband went away for work, leaving her home at seventeen. “Hello?” She’s rocking the baby back and forth while she stands, one hand on the phone, the other on Madeline’s bottom and back.
“I will be arriving at home a...
I feel my phone buzzing in my back pocket and decide to ignore it for a moment. If it’s important they’ll call again but if not I’ll just call back later. I let the phone stop ringing and continue cleaning the dishes, but the phone rings again. I decide to go ahead and answer it in fear that it’s important. I pull the phone out of my back pocket to see it’s Damian, my newly wed husband. I slide th...
RING
RING
RI-
hello?”
“hi”
“who is this?
“it is ashleigh”
“oh sorry”
suspicious
a nagging sense of unease in your brain
you ignore it
“do you want to go out tonight?”
“where would we go?”
“my place”
“um…”
you shouldn’t go
dont go
DONT GO
“okay, sure, why not”
you wave away the screams and
ringing alarm bells
its fine
its asheleigh
you drive to her house
“hey, ash, where did you hide t...
“I’m just so angry. I can’t calm down. It’s the children, it’s what he said to the children, there’s something not right about it.”
“He’s a wonderful father. He probably just cares too much. He would never do anything to hurt them.”
“I don’t want to believe it, but I heard it. I can’t ever go back to a time before he said that.”
“You have to tell me what he said.”
“It’s too awful.”
“Come on.”
“H...
Have you ever heard the screams of a loved one, beggin you to let them in to save them. Have you ever refused, knowing that your loved one is dead. Well, I have.
On May 11, 2135, I got a call from my loved one. They called me in a frantic tone, exclaiming that a skin crawler had invaded her work, and she needed me to pick her up. I remember so vividly, how her inflection was just slightly lo...
“I’m so sorry, pardon me,” Lorraine whisper-hushed a frenzied apology to scowling, shadow-cast faces while wriggling her way out of the premiere.
“You’ll have to excuse me, I need to get through,” her voice, matted thick with exaustion, was scarcely heard over the silence-slicing clang of her phone’s ringetone. It shot up into the air like a noxious gas and lingered, trailing behind her in n...
This doesn’t feel right
You aren’t the same
You not the girl I talked to last night
What could have changed
I can hear your intentions
They aren’t what you told me
You want to use me for my body
You want to use me to be seen
You don’t care about only my attention
Even though you sold me that idea
I can hear it now, all of it
You deceived me Sophia
You sold me on dream of love
But you put a mas...
It wasn’t him. It couldn’t have been. The way he ended his sentences, the shivers i got the more he spoke. The one person who comforts me the most turned into something that gave me chills more then ever. It didn’t make sense. What was I supposed to do? End the phone call? I sat there frozen solid. Before I was going to speak, he said something that made my jaw drop. “Let’s play a game of pretend....
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