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Challenge of the Week LXXVII
This week we're going to try something different. Very different. Sort this challenge feed by newest. Read the most recent post, then continue it. Posts will be constrained to 700 words, so nobody has to read a novella before writing their own entry. When evaluating, we'll read the posts in order, from oldest to newest. Feel free to depart from the previous author stylistically, thematically, or in whichever way you choose, though your entry should be somehow connected to the previous entry. If the previous post is nonsensical, or otherwise hopelessly salvageable, continue from the most recent post you can. (If you do elect to continue from a different post, it'd be helpful if you could indicate which post you're continuing from). We'll write the first sentence. "The dream came to an abrupt end when the hysterical ringing of the telephone split the midnight silence."

A Scream in The Night (continued)

After a night of tossing and turning John opens his eyes. Perhaps I’ll run off the tension, he thinks. Without wasting another second he hops out of bed and retrieves his basketball shorts and tennis shoes. He is pulling his shirt over his head a he ambles down the stairs, calling out to his wife.

“Hey Darce? Think I’m gonna get a little excercise in! Think you could put on some Coffee?” When she doesn’t respond he changes his course and heads into the kitchen. There is his Darcy, sitting on the ground with the land line’s cord wrapped about her body. Instead of the tell tales sign of a dead line an inquiring voice is questioning Darcy from the other end. A growing panic is creeping into Emily’s Voice.

“Mom? Are you still there?”

“It’s Dad, sweetheart? Where are you calling from?” Emily chokes back a sob.

“From Jail, Daddy”

“What? Where’s that scum bag boyfrined of yours?”

“Jason is dead, Daddy.” The room spins and John Goodspeed in wrapped in a sense of vertigo and De Ja Vu. For this is the nightmare he’s just had several times. These events followed by this phone call.