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“Oh.” I still sat on the floor and was too deflated to get up. “Well, that’s not very helpful.” “You know, before coming here,…

— Kasie West

“I froze, my hand on the wall, and listened. Someone was definitely upstairs. I reached into my pocket for my cell phone and took…

— Mara Purnhagen

“He hung up on me. I stared at the phone in disbelief, then ripped a clean sheet of paper from my notebook. I scribbled…

— Becca Fitzpatrick

“My next course of action was to take my phone off the hook, because I kept getting obnoxious messages along the lines of, “Where’s…

— J.A. Konrath

“My mother was in the bathtub crying and I was standing outside the door waiting, just in case she decided to slip her head…

— Eula Biss

“I almost died. Fortunately, my mother was a nurse. She gave me a shot of something, and things turned out brilliantly.” Lucky me, I…

— Tiffanie DeBartolo

“I dialed it now, and the machine picked up. I listened to a dead man's voice. I hung up, wondering how long it would…

— Lawrence Block

“I borrowed a hammer and the garage and disposed of both phones. I was pretty sure that I could have just pulled the batteries,…

— Patricia Briggs

“My phone doesn't ring and the doorbell doesn't either and I begin to wonder whether I am still alive.”

— Sara Baume

“On Christmas morning, Dustin knocked on my door. “Miss Winters,” he said cheerfully. “Breakfast.” I didn’t move. My parents were dead. My boyfriend was…

— Yvonne Woon

“I put my cell phone in my back pocket (a habit that has destroyed two phones so far) and tried to blank my face.…

— Patricia Briggs

“The cell phone remained dead, and that odd chill was in the air again, suggesting that he was no longer in the Wisconsin he…

— Brian Harmon