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    Voice Mail

    By Janet Dawson

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    About this ebook

    Winner of the Macavity Award for Best Short Story.

    The way we communicate now – by e-mail, text messages, voice mail – all detached and at a distance, without the immediate feedback of a face-to-face conversation, or even the voice-to-voice exchange of a phone call.

    But sometimes there are reasons for that distance, as one woman discovers when she uses voice mail to communicate her hostility to her soon-to-be ex-husband. It seems he has an agenda of his own.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJanet Dawson
    Release dateAug 19, 2015
    ISBN9781944153052
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