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Strawberries stretch in the dry moss
and not understand
my escape
is to be always
whistling and crossing
violent and sweet
mysterious pulse.
Machines on Podia.
To entertain herself, she imagined herself on television gameshows.

Text by Jordan Scott. Prompt: 1846 – Elias Howe is granted a patent for the sewing machine.

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

Text by Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer. Prompt: 2001 – Charles Ingram cheats his way into winning one million pounds on a British version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?.

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