Trying to Connect You
by John Rowe Townsend
A man realizes the mistake he made with Elaine, and he desperately searches for a phone
booth to call her before she leaves the country forever, but others want the phone booth,
too, for a series of disasters that haven’t yet happened.
Twenty-four hours after I left her, I knew I was wrong and knew what I should have said.
“Trying to Connect You” by John Rowe Townsend, in
The Eleventh Ghost Book, Aiden Chambers (Barry and Jenkins, 1975).