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Psychic Hotline: A Short Story
The vestiges of old abuse still contain the power to harm. This is a short story.
Excerpt:
I STOOD THERE LIKE an idiot and let it happen. It was as if he knew, as if he were there in the room with us. She and I were in the living room, ready to go, almost out the door. The phone rang. It was for Margie. She left my side to take the call. "It's her ex-boyfriend," someone said. I watched the color drain from her face. I should have taken the phone from her and hung it up; but I didn't know any better, I was a nice guy then. So I stood there and let it happen.
Excerpt:
I STOOD THERE LIKE an idiot and let it happen. It was as if he knew, as if he were there in the room with us. She and I were in the living room, ready to go, almost out the door. The phone rang. It was for Margie. She left my side to take the call. "It's her ex-boyfriend," someone said. I watched the color drain from her face. I should have taken the phone from her and hung it up; but I didn't know any better, I was a nice guy then. So I stood there and let it happen.
31 pages, Kindle Edition
First published November 21, 2013
About the author
R.P. Bird
23 books14 followersProfessional writer since 1989. He is the author of the In The Realm Of The Gods science fiction series (Essa, Book 1: Causality, and Book 2: Contravallation), the crime novel Suzie's Technical Support, the science fiction romance novel Rewire, the novella Perfect Children, the anthology The Heart-Shaped Topologies of Spacetime and innumerable short stories. Crazy, but highly reliable. Can fix about anything. Send him fan mail or annoy him on Twitter: @rpbirdwriter
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