“I start imagining how the conversation will go, where he calls you, and you answer, and he’s silent except for breathing and a few grunts, and you think you have some creeper on the line, hang up on him, and he crushes the phone in his huge, heartbroken hand and never leaves his cabin again.” Ellie.”

“I start imagining how the conversation will go, where he calls you, and you answer, and he’s silent except for breathing and a few grunts, and you think you have some creeper on the line, hang up on him, and he crushes the phone in his huge, heartbroken hand and never leaves his cabin again.” Ellie.”

— Katie Ruggle