Memory of a Phone

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"Call me."

"Please, I need to talk to you."

"Please, please. Call me."

"I don't know where to go. I can't get out of here."

"Talk to me, Evie. I'm sorry for leaving. Please call me back."

I threw my phone in the trash after the first twelve interrupted the movie I had been watching. I dug it out the next morning.

I listened to her voice, whimpering and screaming and cursing my name for as long as she held on to her feeble existence.

The next morning, it was too late.

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