Addicted to your smartphone?

 

We are all guilty of looking at our phones too much. But as someone who enjoys unplugging for travel and hiking and writing retreats, I also know that when you unplug for a few days or weeks, we normally don’t miss nearly as much as we would by staring at our phones.

 

In my short story, “Comments Left,” I tried to imagine a new trend that could be as altering as smart phones have been over the past decade. Let’s hope it doesn’t come true, but if it did, at least we might not be staring at our phones as often.

Sounds intriguing, right? Read “Comments Left,” which was published in the Spring issue of The Virginia Normal: 

https://thevirginianormal.com/issue-7-spring-2021/