SINFUL DESIRES
Chapter 2: The Regular
By the fourth call he had a slot.
She didn’t call it that, exactly. But the third call had been on a Tuesday and she’d said something at the end, off-hand, about Tuesdays being slow, and the fourth call he’d made on a Tuesday and she’d picked up the hold line herself instead of the producer.
“Tuesdays,” she said.
“Tuesdays,” he agreed.
They went on air for six minutes. After the show she texted the station’s contact number, which went to his phone because he’d left it with the producer as a callback number, and the text said: you’re good at this. not everyone is. most people freeze.