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eBook Category: Fantasy
eBook Description: In a series of beautifully crafted vignettes, Bruce Holland Rogers explores the phenomenon we call "white noise," and its effects--good and bad--on the human psyche.

eBook Publisher: Rosetta Solutions, Inc., Published: 1994
Fictionwise Release Date: November 2001

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Words: 1900
Reading time: 5-7 min.
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1. White Noise

I'm not sure. Maybe it was the sound of sand hissing against the windowpane. Maybe it was tires on a wet road. Maybe it was the sound of paper tearing. Maybe it was the sound of water almost boiling. It might have been a distant river or the sound you hear in a seashell or a jar: the sound of space contained.

2. When the Phone Rings at Three in the Morning

You wake up with your heart hammering away, but your jaw and tongue are still numb with sleep. You say hello, but there's nothing there. Well, there's something. There's the hiss of the wires. You say hello again. Hello? Hello? But with your tongue so sluggish, it's coming out instead as hollow? hollow? That sound of an empty line, the hiss and buzz and occasional crackle, is more empty than silence would be. More absent. You fumble the receiver into its cradle, and a moment later, the phone rings again. Still, no one. Very insistently, no one.