Missed call (2026)

At a call center, I’m piecing together a graduation film while balancing a headset. One ear is tuned to the phone, the other straining toward yesterday, tomorrow—anywhere but this room. The calls drift in: their voices, pauses, breath—fragile, forgotten, slipping through me like invisible smudges on the cubicle wall. A voicemail inbox swells, but I never press play.