Phone short stories
6 stories tagged phone on NovelShort. Start with a hook; the first ending is free.
The Emergency Contact
The school called the emergency contact. It rang in a boardroom where that phone hadn't moved in four years.
HorrorH-010The Call From My Number
A woman receives a warning from her own phone number, then has to decide whether the thing in her house is trying to save her or lure her back.
HorrorH-019The Text from Mom
Eleven months after her mother's funeral, a woman receives warnings and photos from her dead mother's phone number — each image taken from inside her house while she sleeps.
HorrorH-025The Voicemail Drafts
Her phone holds eight unsent voicemails in her own voice. Waveforms show they were recorded during a Zoom she can prove she sat through. The last draft tells her not to answer the kitchen.
HorrorH-043The First Lie on a Tuesday
A Tacoma wife relives the Tuesday her husband invented a clinic, and finds a support group, a second phone, and a reason not to follow him in.
HorrorH-044The Payphone That Called Yesterday
A Chicago woman uses a Division Street payphone that calls yesterday, spends ninety seconds taking back cruelty, and refuses to spend the rest on a warning.
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