The Old Phone Book

He threw it away. How was he supposed to know that his father would want to keep that old phone book?

But I look up my friends that way, his father said.

Dad, that was 36 years ago.

I don’t care.

So he drives down to the library and makes photocopies of the old phone book. His father will be grateful, but it is like reading torn pages from someone else’s Bible.

About Halsted M. Bernard

Halsted, a/k/a cygnoir, does stuff with words. Her favourite things to do with words are keeping this diary, writing stories, and organising information. She lives in Edinburgh with her husband, two cats, a few gadgets, several fountain pens, and many books.

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