10/16/2022
Spooktober Day 15!
"It was not long before she came across the source, a lone phonebooth. Appearing first as a faded silhouette against the sea, it grew sharper as she approached. It was a battered thing, the blue paint had mostly peeled away- exposing the rusting steel beneath. Foliage had grown up around it. Still the sight of it sent a jolt of recollection through Sarah. It was the phone booth outside the gas station back home. There was only one booth in town and this was it. Sarah tried to latch on this memory, use it as the line to reel in more…
But the ringing, which had continued unabated, was now so loud it drowned out all other noise and thought. Partly on instinct, Sarah reached out, grabbed the receiver and placed it to her ear.
On the other end was a grating hisss of noise, somehow both part of the surrounding static and discordant with it. Then the divergent sounds resolved into a voice. "