Today's Word...
VOICE
(pronunced /vcis/)
The sounds that are made when people speak or sing
The sound of a voice can be comforting at the start of midnight. It begins the way every day ends: with the radio playing, the host using all his charisma to captivate and hold people to the sound waves that his company’s antenna keeps alive with the audience’s money.
The deep night truly begins for her when insomnia strikes without mercy, when the car she sleeps in creaks as she slides the driver’s seat back. She turns on the radio and allows herself to forget reality for a second. When the host asks for calls, she is the first, lethargically, to pick up the phone she charged at the gas station convenience store and dial.
“Hello, hello, hello. Who’s speaking?”
Hearing his voice is a balm, the best blanket and the most effective sedative and sleep aid. Her lips lift and split her face into a soft smile; in this bleak world with a painful silence, his voice is the most precious sound.
“It’s me, Nate.”
It is comforting when he lets out a warm laugh and murmurs into the microphone in his studio. He recognizes her as well by her words as she recognizes him by their conversations on the radio station, there is an invisible thread connecting the transmitter and the receiver, binding the two of them.
“Welcome back, Angelique. What’s your request tonight?”
“I’d like to… ‘Talking to the Moon'. ”
“The best choice for my most romantic listener.”
Then the song begins to play, and she feels at peace, almost sensing that the possibility of sleep, and a better life, is within reach.
By Sylvia Fernandez Anne





















