A Call Away

"A Call Away" is built upon one of my free stories, "Me--Molly," which was my entry in NPR's Round 10 of their occasional feature, "Three Minute Fiction." There, the 600-word story had to be written "as a voice-mail message." It was my first tale with an LGBTQIA theme--in this case, L--and I wanted to explore it in a wider, deeper, more emotional way. Thus, Molly's two-page struggle became 18.