Phone- — The Sound Recorder -windows

You tell yourself it was a dream. A glitch. The phone is three years old; the battery swells; the audio jack spits white noise. You delete the app from the app list—hold your finger on the tile, tap the little trash can. Uninstalled.

The voice whispers: “Don’t turn around.” The Sound Recorder -Windows Phone-

At first, you hear nothing. Then the soft squeak of a desk shifting. A cough. The rain against the window. You tell yourself it was a dream

In your pocket, your Windows Phone vibrates. Not a call. Not a text. The alarm you set for 2:17 PM. You don’t remember setting it. You delete the app from the app list—hold

You throw the phone into your backpack. You don’t take it out for the rest of the day. You don’t take it out that night. Or the next morning.