Caller Unknown

Caller Unknown

Author: Gillian McAllister Listening Length: 11h 8m
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A road trip across America with her teenage daughter was meant to be much-needed bonding time for Simone before Lucy leaves home for university. But on the first night of their stay, in a cabin deep in the Texan desert, Simone wakes to find Lucy missing and a mobile phone in her place. The phone rings and the voice on ...

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Four o’clock in the morning. Simone stirs, then comes to, dreaming of Lucy standing at the top of a tall building, teetering on the edge. Simone reaches to save her but misses.

The world outside stripes with headlights, and Simone sits up, terrified, but the car fades into the distance. She wonders if they are simply circling her, these near misses. The drone. Soon, they will come for her, to restore the natural order of things. She took one life. Somebody must take hers.

She looks in on Lucy’s room. Her breathing is regular and deep.

Some feeling emerges now, one of those emotions that can only surface in the sea-blue night air, because it brings truth with it. The kind of thing you are not ready to admit in the light of the day, things the sunlight shines too harshly on.