The FuturePast Phone! (COMPLETE)

1 - Feeling

Lindy had a weird feeling about the old pink telephone. From the moment her mother fished it from a bin at a thrift store, Lindy felt the phone was . . . well, what was it, exactly?

She could not describe the feeling very well, and that annoyed Lindy because she was an expert on feelings.

At eleven years old, she had built her entire philosophy of life on "feeling" and had slowly grown so good at feeling her feelings that she could name them like other girls could name all the My Little Ponies.

For example, she was annoyed when her mother wanted to go shopping. She was disgusted when her mother bought the old phone, and now she was weirded out—yes! Weirded-out was the closest feeling she felt—when her mother made her hold the phone on the way home.

But Lindy didn't feel like feeling weirded out.

She also didn't like feeling that other feeling.

A feeling so little it might as well be a toenail of feeling.

Fear.

Fear of the phone.

It was old. Not a cell phone or smart phone—it was a dumb phone. Lindy had seen phones like that in movies but had never owned one. It was plastic, heavy, with a big banana-like handle coming from a curly chord. There was a round spinny thing on the front with numbers.

It felt weird in her hands. The smooth plastic didn't seem to like to be touched.

Well, Lindy didn't like to touch it either! At least she and the phone could agree on that

But why should she be afraid? Pink is not the color of scary.

But it wasn't the pink that bothered her. Not really. It was the fact that when you looked right at the phone, it almost didn't make it to your eyes.

Yes, there was a split second when the phone wasn't there before it was there.

Blink, not there. Blink, there.

Like it was tripping thought time.

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