Marvin Room Phone Calls

“man standing in train station time lapse photography” by Samuel Zeller on Unsplash

The distant sound of a phone vibration woke me up from sleep around 2:35 am today. I reached out and couldn’t recognize the phone number. 347 area code? What state was that? What time was it?

I let the call go and rolled back into my multiple covers, a necessity in the early Winters of New York. Mists of lavender oil and the glow of the scented candle kept me company as I lay wide awake minutes later. Who was calling…