The Message

by Andrew Oberg on 02/06/10 at 6:54 am

by Andrew Oberg
1,010 words
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The first thing Randolph would always do when returning home to his one bedroom apartment, even before greeting his parrot Stan, would be to glance at his answering machine to see if its little red light was blinking, giving him the happy news that he had a new message. The last few days, however, that friendly flashing light hadn’t exactly indicated what it usually did…

“Hey Stan, another new message,” Randolph said, setting his backpack down on the floor next to his front door and carefully taking off his boots.

“Braawk, mother fucker!” Stan replied, poking his beak at the thin bars on the side of his cage. .....