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Submitted to Contest #337
On the fifth ring, Jonah picks up, finally. His mother has been calling for days, every attempt going unanswered. She’s been worried about him. He is a shy boy, her son. Man, she corrects herself. He is twenty-seven now. She should stop stressing about him, she knows, but that’s easier said than done. A mother will stress about her children until she is six feet under, and perhaps even after that.Jonah, though, has never been adventurous. As a child, he rarely left the house, spending every weekend inside with a book. When he went to college...
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