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Seventeen Opportunities to Dream
Umpa
Paid StoryHow do I get tuition funds to go chase my dream career. To my surprise, I got up this morning yawned and glanced at my phone. I was shocked to be greeted by seventeen voicemails. Puzzled why is my phone blowing up was some many messaged for this unknown person? I just simply replied to an ad looking for a new fresh face to advertise a new line of perfume for coming of age women. I was just out of high school scrambling to go to a top private academic institution of higher learning in Texas. My parents said go to local junior college to start..get your bearings and your head in the game. Dad said this what we can afford baby girl as he sat me down for a five dollar cup of coffee for the reality talk. I responded I hear you dad..but my dream is bigger than local community college. Okay replied dad..so what is your plan. You did such a great job in high school..graduated with honors and your volunteer work boosted your college prospects. But honey, your mom and me simply can not afford to send you to UT or Rice or Baylor continued my father. I know... I responded you both had to find new careers after being laid off when I was a high school freshman. You were in line to be the next partner at Brooks & Dale. Mom was to be the associate professor of math at Haven Community College I continued. Now both of you are selling real estate and just making ends meet I uttered. So dad I woke up this morning to seventeen messages left on my phone from some important mystery person I uttered. For your sake baby, I hope one of these seventeen messages says that the lottery ticket your Aunt Billie sent you for a graduation present is the mega millions winner ! Uttered dad. Come on .. I need to meet a client to show the ranch house..where do you want me to drop you ,baby? At the library ..I bought my laptop as I grabbed my backpack carrier for it and my to go coffee cup.
The Mysterious Caller
After celebrating the end of a long work project, Amirah's drunken, spontaneous encounter with a charming man at a nightclub leaves her with a contact saved as "Dreamy eyes." But when she wakes up at 3:00 AM to a phone log full of unplayed voice messages, the celebration curdles into terror. The messages are growing possessive, the breathing is growing louder, and the unknown caller seems to know everything she did. As the suspense mounts and the banging starts at her door, Amirah finds herself facing a chilling, inescapable question: How far will a stranger go to make her his?
Forlorn Justice
LJJime
Never Stop Running
Clara has been plagued by a stranger for months. This stranger leaves her messages, calls, and voicemails. As the stranger comes closer to home, she is made to wonder if it really a stranger at all.
Wonders Happen
GruberA
Two friends in a bar talking about the third absend one, who seems to get an exiting life, after she had 17 voice messages of a stranger on her phone. What exactly happened and who could this stranger be? Did the friends found out, what happened, or did it turned out into something else.
The Price of Wanting
To save her family, she performed a ritual of desperation. The man who answered offered her the world. The contract is a single page. The price isn't in ink. And the signature... is her surrender.
Pulse Point
When Maddie wakes up to 17 voicemails from a stranger, she thinks it’s just a mix-up. But every heartbeat counts—especially when a door closes.
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Going Home
Houlsby
A private detective investigates possible infidelity and learns that humans aren't the only ones who cheat.
Don't pick up
KatNap
Arleen Decker was a 27 year old waitress at the local diner in a small sleepy town where everyone knew everyone and no new face goes unnoticed. There were always travelers passing through but mostly everyone that was a part of this small town had grown up here. Arleen moved to Lemore, Arkansas a few years ago. She no longer felt like an outsider. She lived with a roommate, another waitress that she worked with. No family followed her. She woke up one evening as the sun was going down with her ears ringing and phone buzzing deafened vibrations. She fumbles for her phone and tries to pick up but doesn't answer it in time. "Where am I?" She asks herself as she puts a hand to her head. "Ow." Dried blood on her head and hand made her heart jump and she starts to gather herself and make a way back to town. Whichever way town is.
17 Messages
Zoe wakes to 17 voicemail messages, which she believes are from a stranger. After listening to the first message, she realizes it's from someone she met at a high school graduation party years ago—Ty Connor. That brief encounter sparked a moment of impossible familiarity neither could forget.
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Moth
A recluse from the world receives a call she truly thought she could ignore. Turns out none of us are safe.