Introduction
This collection is a collection of seventy stories, each 280 words. They were inspired by the first picture seen on my Twitter feed on a given day.
The way around it of course was Zoom. If you couldn't meet in person why not Zoom? Why not Skype, or Teams, or Web X, though? Because Zoom had more of a ring about it.
Some sat there with pads over their ears, and some had little buds in them. Some had a microphone on their desks. Even sometimes an old-fashioned round one. Like the guy on the telly last night. On the BBC of all things. Who’d have thought it?
He should really get himself set up like that. How much did it cost, that sort of equipment? He searched through his favourite on-line shops. He read the reports. This was the best. And cost-effective. He'd saved more than that by not going to the pub, by not taking the tube and by learning to cook.
So, he filled out the order carefully and tracked it anxiously. It had left the depot. It had arrived in the nearest town. It was less than a kilometre away. There was a van in the street. The doorbell rang.
"It's on the step, mate," the delivery man shouted to him.
He opened the parcel, washed his hands, disposed of the packaging, washed his hands again and set it all up according to the instructions. And washed his hands again.
He opened Zoom and saw himself on the screen. Yes this was it. Now he looked right.
He started letting his people into the meeting room.
"The first news," said Thackeray, the chairman," is that we have made the office safe. You can all come in as form tomorrow. This will be the last meeting we need to hold like this."
About the author
Gill James is published by The Red Telephone, Butterfly and Chapeltown. She edits CafeLit and writes for the online community news magazine: Talking About My Generation. She teaches Creative Writing and has an MA in Writing for Children and PhD in Creative and Critical Writing.
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