Bosca Dubh
mostly shadows and lines02.17.06 Party Line
This old crank phone was from the last manual switchboard party-line system in the U.S., in Bryant Pond, ME; it came out of my grandparents’ summer house. I’d like to rig it up to take incoming calls; it won’t make outgoing calls, of course, since there’s no point in picking up the handset and yelling “Hello Central!” at some digital switching machine.
Don’t forget–the 2006 Million Writers Award have opened for nominations. Start thinking about the stories published on-line in 2005 that deserve the nod! (If you’ve got one you’d like to spotlight, let me know through a comment or e-mail). The process this year is exceptionally open–you can see all the stories that have been nominated, and by whom, making it a great directory of the best short fiction published on the web.
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