Ghost Light by Hautala Rick

Author:Hautala, Rick [Hautala, Rick]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Horror
Publisher: Crossroad Press
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

2

The instant the telephone started ringing, Cindy’s eyes snapped open. Grunting softly, she reached out in the darkness and fumbled with the receiver, cutting off the phone’s bell in mind-ring. As she pressed the receiver to her ear, she glanced at her alarm clock and saw that it was almost two o’clock in the morning.

“Hello,” she said in a tremulous whisper. Her heart was punching high and fast in her chest, making her voice warble higher than normal.

“Hey, how ya doin’ there, sexy,” said a man’s voice. “Tell me, how you feelin’ tonight?”

“Who is this?” Cindy demanded, shifting to sit up in bed. The center of her stomach had gone stone cold, and a tight, choking sensation gripped her by the throat.

“Come on, you know damned right well who this is,” the man’s voice on the other end of the line said teasingly. “And d’you wanna know what?” He spoke with no pause, not allowing her to answer. “I’ve been thinkin’ about you, day after day… and night after night. Thinkin’ ’bout you a lot. Oh, yeah… I get so-o-o fucking horny just thinkin’ ’bout your cute little titties, I just might shoot my goo in my underpants right now.”

“I—I’m sorry,” Cindy stammered, fighting back an urge to slam the receiver down, “but I think you have the wrong number.” She knew she should just hang up on him, but she wanted to make it clear to whomever this was that he must have misdialed so he wouldn’t call her number again.

“Oh, shit, no! I know I’ve got the right number, all right,” the man’s voice said. He slurred his words, sounding more than a little bit drunk. “And you know, I’ve been layin’ ’round here in bed, feelin’ all hot and horny just thinkin’ ’bout what you ’n me could be doin’ together.”

“I—I’m really sorry, but you must have dialed the wrong number,” Cindy said. “What number were you trying to reach?”

She was fighting to keep her voice steady and firm so she wouldn’t give away just how afraid she was. She hoped to hell this person hadn’t dialed her number on purpose, and she mentally vowed, if he ever called a second time, to get her unlisted number changed.

“Oh, no, no, I don’t think so, ma’am,” said the man. “Why don’t you just lay back ’n play with yourself, ’n listen while I tell you what I plan to do with—”

Finally, Cindy could stand it no longer. Before she heard another word, she slammed the phone down so hard it made a loud clang. Trembling, she sat there in the dark for a long time, her face cupped in her hands.

At last she eased herself back down onto the bed and let the warm darkness enfold her, but her face was still burning with embarrassment. She wanted to erase the incident from her mind, but hearing that man talk like that, as gross as it had been, had immediately reminded her of just how long it had been since she had felt the loving touch of another human being.

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