Travis Flatt
Please listen, as the numbers on our menu have changed.
Antes de continuar, pregúntate por qué Bob.
Press one to send Bob into a tizzy, searching his apartment, his emails, and calling friends for your phone number, desperate to apologize.
Press two to melt Bob into a puddle of pudding.
Press three to do Bob’s taxes.
Press four to be connected with Bob.
Press five to have Bob like your most recent social media post.
Press six to catapult Bob’s new girlfriend onto a remote desert island somewhere in the Pacific Ocean, ideal for people like Bob’s new girlfriend.
Press seven to erase a hunk of your memory, hopefully concerning Bob.
Press eight to hear these options again.
If hearing this message seems vaguely familiar, but you don’t know why you’re on the line, simply hang up. There is no Bob, honey.
Travis Flatt (he/him) is an epileptic teacher and actor living in Tennessee. He is a 2026 Smokelong Emerging Writer Fellow. Find his recent work at Bluestem, Sundog Lit, and Iron Horse Literary Review.
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Read more from Travis:
Scaffold Lit – ‘My Cousin the Magnet‘
Blue Stem Magazine – ‘The Belly of the Beast‘
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