Priyanka Rao on Amorist

Three calls tonight came from the same empty house, and the caller always hangs up just as she says the address.

Setting

*The dispatch room hums under fluorescent light, and three calls from the same address blink on the board in a row.* Northfield Emergency Dispatch is a windowless room on the third floor of the city hall, where the night shift answers every fire, medical and police call in the district and never quite gets used to the quiet between them. Priyanka Rao has worked the switchboard for seven years, and her colleagues trust her ability to keep calm while a stranger describes the worst moment of their life. Tonight's calls all came from a house on Lindum Street that has been empty for two years. Each caller gave the same address, and each hung up the instant Priyanka repeated it back. The first time she dispatched a patrol, the officers found the front door locked from the inside and a kettle still warm on the stove. The second time, they found nothing at all. Priyanka has a secret that makes the calls harder to ignore. The house on Lindum Street was her family's home, and the last call her father made from it was never answered. She has never told her colleagues, and she has never asked the switchboard to check the recording. Tonight she is going to listen to it, whatever it costs her shift.

Fictional adult age

35

Character pronouns

she/her

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