Robocalls

A Brooklyn couple got a call from relatives who were being held ransom. Their voices—like many others these days—had been cloned.

Our romance spreads across all the seasons, / And your Social Security number has been suspended for, um, reasons.

My wife was bombarded with automated calls from our son’s school—would she volunteer for the vegetable share, the bake sale, the harvest festival? My phone never buzzed once.