Assume Nothing
“Clarke was sure he had heard it a thousand times before. Still, he couldn’t place it.
It came and went, long stretches of silence sandwiched between iterations, a tinny chime over dime-store speakers nagging him for attention. Finally, he gave in and opened his eyes, blinked through a haze of pain into a dark room turned on its side: his bedroom.
He peered into the shadowy void, tried to remember what he was doing here, on his stomach in his bed, aching from head to foot. The incessant jingle p...ersisted. At last, he recognized it for what it was: the theme music from Rocky, clipped and denuded down to the flat-note triviality of a cell phone ringtone. His cell phone.
Where the hell the instrument was in the room, Clarke couldn’t begin to guess, but he knew he lacked the will to ignore it for another second. To anyone else, it would have been a minor irritant at most, but to him, at this moment, the sound of the phone held all the aural power of a running leaf blower strapped to the side of his skull.MoreLess
It came and went, long stretches of silence sandwiched between iterations, a tinny chime over dime-store speakers nagging him for attention. Finally, he gave in and opened his eyes, blinked through a haze of pain into a dark room turned on its side: his bedroom.
He peered into the shadowy void, tried to remember what he was doing here, on his stomach in his bed, aching from head to foot. The incessant jingle p...ersisted. At last, he recognized it for what it was: the theme music from Rocky, clipped and denuded down to the flat-note triviality of a cell phone ringtone. His cell phone.
Where the hell the instrument was in the room, Clarke couldn’t begin to guess, but he knew he lacked the will to ignore it for another second. To anyone else, it would have been a minor irritant at most, but to him, at this moment, the sound of the phone held all the aural power of a running leaf blower strapped to the side of his skull.MoreLess
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