The Day God Called

"Sure, I'll go back to church, and even apologize to the pastor, if god calls," I rolled my eyes. "I'll give him to 11:59 P.M. I got the phone next to me. I'll be sure to answer every call."

I sat down, and proceeded to work on my novel.

At 7:17 P.M. the telephone rang. It emitted a whitish-gold glow as it rang.

"Nice parlor trick!" I shouted across the hall to my husband. "I still don't believe!"

I answered the phone on the seventh ring. Before I could respond, a strange frequency emitted from the other end of the line.

I screamed as a huge wormhole opened in my living room. An old hag with maggots slithering out of her eye sockets emerged from the portal. She appeared to be a spider from the waist down.

A thunderous voice boomed from within every vent in my house. "Now, do you believe in my existence?!"

I stood frozen in shock as the half-hag, half-spider creature snatched me up, and took me into the portal...