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Sleep its initial stage
my childhood a dome
toward the somber dome of the sky
I’m scattered, in a pathological way
sleeping and waiting
in the architecture of sink.
The stolen screams were at least high-pitched.
It was another evasion, after all; we’d all grown so nervous of our own feelings.

Text by Jordan Scott. Prompt: 1935 – USS Macon, one of the two largest helium-filled airships ever created, crashes into the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California and sinks.

Text by Christof Migone. Prompts: texts by Jordan and Kathryn plus the prompts they chose.

Text by Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer. Prompt: 1994 – Four men break into the National Gallery of Norway and steal Edvard Munch’s iconic painting The Scream.

Todays Calls is part of the Phone Works series by Christof Migone. Website design by Endless Commons. Thanks to the Ontario Arts Council.