Melissa Perri Smith

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“Telephone Lines and Earthquakes” by Melissa Perri Smith

Submitted to Contest #30

The windows are starting to fog, and you can’t remember where you told the cab driver to take you.You trace someone’s name in the condensation, but you can’t read it so you can’t remember who they were either so you wipe it away with the edge of your sleeve. You watch the cotton of your shirt grow fat and dark against your skin, and it’s an ugly sort of thing so you press your forehead against the window and watch telephone poles zip by.You wonder who’s calling or if anyone even does that anymore, and the grass at the base of each pole is st...

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