the super computer in the head that comprehends it all

the super computer in the head that comprehends it all

fiction
edward w pritchard

Ring.

The phone never rang and should have been off the hook anyway. It was an inopportune time for a phone call on the stout black solid bell phone that never rang and shouldn't ring because the only person who ever called out on the phone was occupied and the
only
ever
caller on that Bell phone that
cost fourteen dollars a month to sit most of the time silently waiting for a mysterious phone call  was the occupier.

One ring and the super computer in the head that comprehends it all raced through fifty million future
intereactions
and starved for opportunity and danger answered the phone. Uncharacteristically impolite
the deal was set, the future mortgaged, joy/sorrow,exhilaration/regret two grandchildren with another on the way
later
no one has a stout black solid Bell phone anymore, viewing texted messages instead at inopportune times now a days and where will future grandchildren come from and where will the super computer in the head that comprehends it all glean the opportunity and danger that procreates the Earth?