Quiet!
I picked up my home phone and talked to the dialling tone, the execution of the landline was imminent, he told me a select set of people wanted him dead, he spoke about the war on conversation explaining that every telephone box was being murdered and all their internal instruments we’re being removed, it was happening in the early hours so no one would notice, it was a culling of sorts, he went on to tell me about the dissidents, small groups of people secretly gathering after dark to exercise their right to free speech, overreaching government policy on 'words spoken' had become an arrestable offence, from now on all future communication must be made both through email and text message, the state believe's it’s in the vested interest of the nation to cut out all citizens tongues followed by their voice boxes, those who choose to use sign language will have all their fingers sliced off, halfway through the conversation the landline ...