Writing Prompt

Hello, 911 can I help you

Breathing slow and quiet

A person on the other end

Hello are you ok do you need help

The person talks quietly and very soft

I don’t need any help, but they do

What do you mean, who’s they?

The family that once lived here

What do you mean?

There all dead gone forever

The whole family and I’m the cause

Who are you ? Death to them.

I was there worst nightmare chuckling

...

“I need to be talked off the proverbial cliff.”

My heart sunk to my feet. The job itself would do that to you, answering helpline calls all day, but this was different. I knew that voice, but it couldn’t be …

“What’s wrong, sir?” I brought myself to say, mouth going dry already.

“I just don’t see a purpose in things anymore. I’m losing interest. What do you recommend?”

“Well, what things u...

“911 what your emergency?”

“Yeah Hi theres an angry british man throwing potatos at me!”

“Um Sir this line is for emergencies only.”

“This is a emergency- AH, SAM STOP IT!”

“I’m going to have to let you go.”

“Like Elsa?”

“Goodbye sir.”

— Beep. —

“Well that was useless.”

“Duh Mattheo.”

”Can you stop throwing potatoes at me now?”

”No.”

”HSAHGSGDGEKEUE-”

....

- Ringggg -

”Tess help ...

“I’m gonna do it. I have nothing left to live for”

……. dddddddd…….. He’d hung up.

Suzy paused, holding the phone in her hand away from her ear. She could still hear the faint tone emanating from the receiver. She felt numb, she felt numb because she will never know. Never know if he lived, never know if he got the help he needed, never know if she could have helped him, saved him....

Help Line: Thank you for calling our helpline. How can I assist you today?

Caller: Oh, thank goodness I reached someone! You won't believe what just happened. Mysterious white lights landed in my backyard, and I have no idea what to do. It's like something out of a science fiction movie!

Help Line: That sounds incredibly intriguing! Can you provide more details about these lights? Did you notice...

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This is not how I imagined it. I didn’t think it would come so soon. I didn’t think I’d be so certain of the time it would happen. And I definitely wouldn’t have guessed this would be how I’d die.

Right now I’m tightly bound and gagged to a chair in my office that is bolted to the floor. I can’t move more than an inch in any direction. I’m facing the door. There’s a gun on a tripod aimed at my ch...

“Spirit Whisperer, how may I haunt you?”

I had started a spiritual business where I offered living people the chance to talk to their dead love ones for only $ 13.99 per message. They believed I sent it to their spirit and they had to pay another $ 13.99 to receive an answer. A vague answer I had made up myself, obviously. Most people just wanted to know they were loved and forgiven.

“I want to...

Kate had finally finished a hard day’s work of speaking to people and hearing their problems. She felt like a psychologist, which she didn’t mind, but there was only so much she could tolerate. But hey, it was better than sweeping the floor or being stuck behind a register. As she packed her things and locked up, her phone buzzed with an unknown number.

She held the phone up to her ear and expect...

“Hello-“

Suzy Lee sat, half-slumped in her chair, struggling to muster up enough enthusiasm for another caller. There’d be another after this one, and another after that, for which more enthusiasm would be needed, but she had long since resolved that those a problem for the her of the future. For now, one at a time.

“I’m Suzy Lee with DayCorp limited, you appear to have selected “three” for the ...