I listened to her talking, but something was off. Her voice was the same, but the way she talked…it wasn’t like her

“-and yeah, so could you please come. Soon? Like, right now?”

That wasn’t like her. She would have said something like “Could you please come as soon as possible?” But not that. I decided to ask her a question. “When did we meet? And do we want to marry, it yes, when?” The voice on t...

Ring-ring! Ring-ring!

Joan: Hey grill!

Laura: Hi girl! Wait, did you say _grill_?

Joan: *stutters creepily* N-n-n-noooo

Laura: Are you OK?

Joan: Yes.

Laura: Ok.

Joan: Do you want to play with me?

Laura: What’s going on with you?

Joan: Hehehe….

Laura: Joan you are going crazy.

Joan: Turn around.

Laura: Ok… *turns around* AAAHAHHAHAHHAH. *silence*

Joan: Hehehe…...

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

….

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...