The Phone That Rang With Its Cord Cut

Telephone

The telephone rang even though its cord had been cut.

Elena heard it while waiting beneath the old iron roof of Torino Porta Nuova. The sound was thin and metallic, almost lost beneath rolling suitcases, platform announcements, and the hiss of an arriving train.

She turned toward the wall.

The payphone was still there.

Its blue casing had faded to gray. Scratches covered the plastic hood, and someone had pushed a folded bus ticket into the coin slot. A severed black cable hung beneath it like a dead root.

It rang again.

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Nimra Khan — original fiction published on RapidTale.