Voice Mail — Janet Dawson

Winner of the Macavity Award for Best Short Story.

The way we communicate now â€" by e-mail, text messages, voice mail â€" all detached and at a distance, without the immediate feedback of a face-to-face conversation, or even the voice-to-voice exchange of a phone call.

But sometimes there are reasons for that distance, as one woman discovers when she uses voice mail to communicate her hostility to her soon-to-be ex-husband. It seems he has an agenda of his own.