събота, 16 ноември 2013 г.

Short Short Story: Come Home

Call me when you wake up, when you come around. Call me to tell me you’re alive; call to say you’re okay. I don’t want you to ask me how I’m doing. It’s up to you to decide if you care enough to ask. But I do… care, so call me when you wake up.

         I will smile when the phone rings. I will embrace the receiver with my hand, and let my skin feel its coldness. I will pick it up and answer with a soft voice, but maybe I will not hear you because of the noise. The noise which always surrounds you, occupies you. You don’t hear it, I assume; for you’d go crazy if you did. But it’s still there, my dear. The noise of cars, and honks, and people talking, shouting, screaming; the noise of cats and dogs running down the street; the noise of conditioners, and computers… the noise of the town. I wonder if you could hear me through that terrible noise. Can you hear my voice, dear, telling you, “Come home”?

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