Last Chance

flash fiction month, day four, 2024 - CHALLENGE

Must come home today <stop> Wire fare <stop> Meet NYC airport <stop> Please? <end>

Question sent back telegram office <stop>  Who this? <end>

Your daughter  <stop> Now in Oakland CA <stop> Help <end>

No phone? <stop> This expensive <stop> Which daughter? <end>

Josie <stop> Favorite <stop> Lost everything <stop> Help <stop> Must leave NOW <end>

Have 3 daughters Molly Marianne Theresa <stop> See your name? <stop> Who this? <end>

Daddy Joe <stop>  No joking  <stop> Am desperate <end>

Joe at 1321? <stop> You his smartass kid? <stop>  Ha ha <stop>  Will call Joe <end>

This Charlene? OMG <stop> Yikes <end>

Author's Note

FFM Day 4, 2024
Challenge! - Element one: Epistolary story, Element two: unreliable narrator
Wordcount 100 ////
(Wrote a drabble because ???! goofy)