There’s a number you can dial if you have a secret. Of course nobody answers; that’s the game. In this area code you have to dial at least eight digits, and this number has only seven. You stop while the line is still silent, and you whisper into the listening aether. 

I kissed my best friend’s boyfriend.

I stole the petty cash at work.

When I said I loved him, I lied.

The reason I set it up is because my familiar creature eats secrets and there was only so many of them I could create for myse...