Phone call Stories

I can't recall the year but I was out of work just as the Summer was beginning. Back before the internet, job seekers were forced to peruse the morning and evening paper. I happened to come across an ad for a day camp counsellor and called the number. A very nice lady answered and I was asked to come in for an interview. I raced across town and was soon sitting opposite a very attractive dark haired lovely. Then came the...

  1   It was the light percussion of a triangle that did it. The soft ting of it incorporated with what would be a rather drab tune, that roused him from slumber. Head pounding, eyes swimming in a sea of their own fluid, he blinked away sleep to the real nightmare (not that he remembered if he had been dreaming, or what it would be about anyway). The old-fashioned style corded phone’s receiver lay beside him on the leathe...

Amber woke at 7:00am and headed to the bathroom for her normal bout with morning sickness, their intensity had lessened over the last few months and that was a relief. She then headed to the kitchen where she poured a large glass of orange juice and took her pre-natal vitamins. She had just finished draining the glass when her cellphone rang so she fished it out of the pocket of her robe and glanced at the caller ID, she ...

Anxious and excited she lays in bed recalling their last conversation When they made plans to phone each other for the very first time. Looking up at the ceiling Pulling the sheet over She tries to get comfortable Turning left and then right readjusting the pillows closing her eyes.As the butterflies build in the pit of her stomach. She runs through a list of what ifs, What if she says something stupid, even says somethin...