May Challenge - "She answered a phone call from her own number."

A dystopian short story about a someone who's very being is out of their control.

Twenty-four-year-old Abi Hantz is living the toxic life of drinking hard and partying harder, always waking up only to feel like she was knocking on deaths door, but a phone call would one day change Abi's perspective on her current life, and what she could do to gain more of the best from it. Abi listens to this advice, and soon realizes, it was truly all for the best.

A woman receives a mysterious phone call — from her own number. On the other end, she hears her own voice speaking with clarity and certainty she has long forgotten. What follows is an inner dialogue, a heart-to-heart between the woman and her truest self. Through this surreal encounter, she is reminded of a deep love she once felt, the light it awakened within her, and the part of herself she abandoned out of fear. The story is a tender journey of return — to love, to self, to the place where she once felt whole.

A woman on the path to recovery faces an emotional crossroads as she prepares for a day that will change everything. Amidst the echoes of the past and uncertain futures, she must confront love, loss, and the fragile hope of forgiveness.

Bella gets a chilling phone call—from her own number. The voice on the line is her own, warning her to run: her best friend whom she trusts isn’t who she seems.

As reality unravels, Bella must outsmart a shapeshifting threat that knows everything about her. With only cryptic calls from alternate versions of herself, she races to survive a night that’s already happened—over and over again.

In this modern romance, college student Bailey receives a mysterious phone call from her own number. Puzzled but curious, she answers to discover Noah, a graduate student in environmental engineering who explains the concept of "phone number roommates" - people with identical numbers in different area codes.

A girl finds freedom from an old number and a stranger

When Zoe receives a mysterious phone call from her own number at exactly 3:03 a.m., she's thrust into a chilling encounter with a voice that sounds exactly like hers—warning her to flee her apartment. Dismissing it as a glitch or a nightmare, Zoe hesitates, only to find her world slowly unraveling. Shadows move where they shouldn’t, footsteps echo inside her locked apartment, and a doppelgänger wearing her face appears with a cryptic message: You didn’t leave.

As the lines between reality and something darker blur, Zoe must uncover what happens in the minute after 3:03—and what waits for her on the other side. A psychological horror short that explores identity, time, and the terrifying possibility of being replaced by yourself.

After finally getting to where she is right now, she receives a strange phone call from someone who claims to be herself. She's not taking it too seriously, until the voice on the other end starts to confront her about her past.