Switchboard Symphony, story by Maria Nestorides (MY FIRST JOB Poetry and Prose Series) | Silver Birch Press

Switchboard Symphony by Maria Nestorides Summer, 1981. I’m thirteen and I’m starting my first summer job, standing in for Crystal, the phone operator at a local company, so she can go away on holiday. On my desk, sits a huge state-of-the-art digital telephone switchboard. Its flashing lights wink at me menacingly as if to say:…
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