Friday Fictioneers – The Ringing Phone

~ Neil MacDonald
PHOTO PROMPT © Sandra Crook

It’s when the ringing stops you need to worry. Or the drums in the night. Or the fire beacons that flare from hilltop to hilltop against the chill and moonless sky. Have you betrayed a vital trust to keep the message travelling onwards? If you don’t answer, will the invaders storm unthwarted up the beach? If you don’t answer, will you wonder and regret for the rest of your miserable life?

You pick up the phone, but are unable to summon an answer.

A voice. Female. Angry. “Tell Benji he’s dead to me.”

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Friday fictioneers is a weekly challenge set by Rochelle Wisoff Fields to write a 100-word story in response to a photo prompt. You can find other stories here

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