Sept. 28, 2026

His Own Voice — An Original Short Story by Don McDonald

His Own Voice — An Original Short Story by Don McDonald

The Voice Within

Winter, 1906. A clerk who speaks to no one from Saturday to Monday buys a mahogany graphophone for far less than it’s worth. The widow selling it keeps her eyes on the snow. Her husband, she says, liked to keep his own voice.


He carries it home and records his diary each night, and the machine hands him back to himself, the nearest thing to company he has. Then the wax starts holding something he never put there.


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