Different Call Sign Novels & Stories

“I heard the call.” “Good,” I say. “We need every hand.” She doesn’t settle into the chair. Instead, she thrusts a phone toward Casen before she says anything else. “There's something wrong with the signals between our territory and the cities.” Casen takes the phone, thumbed by some jittery human habit. He frowns, swipes. Nothing. The signal shows. It’s normal, bars showing like any other city phone. He shrugs. “It’s fine,” he says, and then stops because she’s already leaning in.

There was shuffling on the other end. “Yeah… yeah, I do.” “Good.” I leaned forward slightly, my eyes narrowing as I read the plate again. “IL 9421 XZ.” A pause. Then— “IL 9421 XZ,” Eric repeated. “Got it.” “I need it fast,” I added. “I’ll call you as soon as I find something.” “It’s urgent.” “I said I got you,” he replied. Then he ended the call. I dropped the phone back on the seat beside me.

All of the calls seem to be made at least two or three months apart, sometimes even longer. As I reach the end of the call history, which similarly dates back to about four years ago, I notice three calls made to another number. This one also has a California area code. The time readout shows a few minutes on the first call to this number, but the second two have a duration of only a few seconds. Like he called the number but almost immediately hung up. How odd. I turn the phone back off and return it to the desk.

Therefore, they were so enraged that they kept on calling him. However, Nathan had two sets of phones with the same number. One of the phones could only receive calls from special phone numbers that were pre set by him, including the numbers of Hilda, Old Master Clemon, Kyle, Samuel, his parent, Rex, Gasper, Nuella, and others. Calls from other numbers, including those of the Nates Family members, Tehilla, and some business partners, would all be transferred to a different phone, and Stanley was fully responsible to receive all the calls from that phone.

But not to worry Sella more, she replied, “I think she might be on the way. I though didn’t receive any call from her but the network nowadays is very poor! Let me call her and find out Aunty! Don’t worry!” After assuring Sella, Linda immediately called Emily’s mobile but it said that it was out of service! She tried a few times more and when she couldn’t connect, she frowned and got extremely worried. She decided to call the Ford Mansion! --

"Hello, this is Esmeralda, a senior officer at this station. Sir, we need clear information regarding this report in order to act appropriately." Dryzza's colleagues gathered around, asking her to put the call on speaker for their collective scrutiny, which she did. After a brief silence, the man spoke again. "12-12-12—" Before he could provide additional details, Dryzza hastily wrote down the numbers. "12-12-3-3-9-9." The call ended abruptly, leaving everyone in a state of palpable dread. The room fell into silence until Sai broke it with a weary sigh. "Let me guess? We handle this, too?"

The plane looked like a stick of Candy against the hazy blue sky, a white body with a nose- EG&G to-tail chcerful red stripe, the colors of the long defunct Western Airlines coopted by the defense contractor EG&G for its Las Vegas tered to the U.S. Navy. ls Las Vegas shuttle fleet. The tail numbers were regis- ilot radioed, Descending toward the military field, the copilot radioed, "JANET4 requesting clearance to land at Groom lake Runway 14 left." JANET. Radio call sign for Joint Air Network for Em.

The town has this mystic old-style vibe like it's stuck in the 50s. "Code 00-17-1 in Narrow River. I repeat, 00-17-1 in Narrow River." The radio buzzes and the almost robotic female voice of the dispatcher follows. I've never heard this code before, it's in no book I've read. But even so, neither Jamie nor another patrol from the area seems to care. Jamie just keeps driving, as if the dispatcher never called. "What's this code? I've never heard of it." "You know all codes?"

The caller didn’t pick up or return the call I called twice and got no response.

Not a text this time. A call.