"Phone Shop" drabbles by Speculoos Biscuits

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A sacrifice

Phone Shop #6

I've been getting these spam phone calls and Nerys at work told me she went to this phone shop where they blocked some dirty phone texts.

If Nerys hadn't sworn by the place I would have thought it was a scam.
"I can help but it will need a sacrifice of great value", the woman told me
"It will be expensive".
I paid and she pulled out this bottle of red liquid and started sprinkling it all over the case of the phone. I must have looked a bit pale because she said "Its not blood, it's magenta printer ink"

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iPhone 11

Phone Shop #5

I got the new iPhone but the battery's rubbish. Matt at work told me about this shop where they do this illegal Chinese mod that so you literally never go below 3% battery.

So I take it there and the woman takes the phone out the back, and I'm watching her through the door. I swear on my mums life she opens up the case writes some like runes or something on the battery with a sharpie and chants a spell. It was proper occult man. I couldn't get out fast enough.

It worked though, battery never goes below 3%.

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Nokia 8110

Phone Shop #4

I was told to ask for Saskia and to say that there was an old family member I wanted to get in touch with.
"What you ask is not easy, to connect to this network you need special SIM".
I nodded and she locked the front door of the shop.
"You have money? It is 200 hundred for SIM then £1 each message".
I gave her £220 in cash. From a drawer she took a SIM, the connections arranged in a little pentagram and put it into a battered Nokia 8110.
"If you have number, it will text the dead"

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Laughing Emoji

Phone Shop #3

There's this girl in my class, Sasha. She's a bitch. Last week I posted a picture of my new top and she commented a laughing emoji. Like I said she's a bitch. A friend of my mum had this ex who was like a facebook stalker and my mum's friend told me she went to this legit witch in the phone shop. I went to see her too and showed her some of Sasha’s stories and she like went in like a trance and said a spell of something. Now when Sasha posts on Instagram she looks a bit fat.

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No Bars

Phone Shop #2

"You have bad signal on this phone" said the woman in the shop, handing it back to me with the screen now repaired. I couldn't place the accent, maybe Eastern European. I said something about changing network. "This will not help", she shrugged "It is a curse, I can remove for you….for this phone will be £12.99"

I didn't think she literally meant a curse but once I'd paid she rummaged in some drawers and pulled out a broken pair of ear buds, the wires carefully knotted and twisted. "Plug into phone when you charge tonight then bury in ground".

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Hext

Phone Shop #1

I read about her on facebook, she works in that shop selling used handsets and phone cases.

"Do you have something of his? A message or text?" she asked, so I gave her my phone, open on the email that smug prick used to sack me. Her fingers flicked through some systems menus, "It is done" she sighed, holding the power button to restart. I paid and left.

The next day, when I went to clear my desk, the police were already at the office. One had a laptop in a clear evidence bag, the other, my supervisor in handcuffs.