The Boyfriend App
Her heart speeds up at the sound of the start-up tone and the yellow-green glow of the screen with two black pixel-gradient hands – one of an adult and the other of a child – reaching out to hold each other like in Michelangelo’s “The Creation of Adam”
{I literally feel like a cavewoman right now,} she thinks. She’s on the verge of crying tears of joy.
Using the big analog buttons, Kate manipulates the menu to go to the Phone book. It takes a while for her to get the hang of going back and forth. She finds there’s only one contact in the phone.
{I hope this cellphone has load,} she prays silently and presses Call.
In the Philippines, majority of text, call and mobile data users are prepaid a