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+title: Phone
+genre: prose
+
+project:
+    title: "Buildings out of air: Paul in the Woods"
+    css: paul
+    order: 16
+    next:
+    - title: Tapestry
+      link: tapestry
+    - title: Planks
+      link: planks
+    previous:
+    - title: Treatise
+      link: treatise
+    - title: Paul
+      link: paul
+...
+
+"Hello Paul this is Jill Jill Noe remember me" the voice on the phone was a
+woman's.  He nodded into the receiver.  "Hello" Jill asked again "hello?"
+Paul remembered that phones work by talking and said "Hello Jill."
+
+"Do you remember me" she asked "we were in school together?  How have you
+been?"  "Pretty well" said Paul "I've been writing and making furniture."  "Oh
+that's nice" said the woman's voice tinny in the phone "Listen I ran into your
+mother at the Supermarket the other day and she said you need a job.  You
+still need one?"  Paul had to tell the truth.  His mother was watching him out
+of the corner of her eye as she was playing dominoes at the kitchen table.
+"Yes" he said sighing "Although woodworking takes up much of my time."
+
+"OK" she laughed uncomortably "I actually have something you could do for me
+if you think you can get away from woodworking a bit.  It's just data entry
+really basic stuff entry-level."  "What's it pay" he asked.  "Minimum but
+there is room for movement."  "OK" he said.  "Start on Monday okay?"  "Sure"
+he said "bye" and the tin voice in the phone said "Goodbye Paul see you" by
+the time he put it back on the hook.
+
+"Who was that" asked his mother.  "Jill Noe" he said.  "Oh her was she calling
+about a job for you?"  "Yes starts Monday" he said.  She smiled behind her
+glasses reflecting dominoes.