When a young woman answers a dead man's ringing phone in a cafe, she becomes involved with the owner's friends and family.
Not long after I began serious work on my book, I called my mother from the pay phone of a cafe in the Italian neighborhood of Belmont.
So ubiquitous are terrorist attacks, and the dreadful anticipation of them, in "Human Parts" that when the real estate heir can't reach his girlfriend on her cell phone at a cafe, he wonders if she's been blown up.
Speaking by phone from the cafe, Mr. Sullivan said that because he travels for business from two to three weeks each month, he is used to looking for spots to log on, typically in airports, hotels and cafes, which he finds in the yellow pages.
The road is lined with small, sometimes repetitive, but useful businesses: phone shops, hairdressers, cafes.
We had an alarm clock to wake us up from the punk squat; there were old PCs in hotel lobbies for the public to log on to their AOL accounts; international phone booths in internet cafes; hell, there were even internet cafes, instead of just cafes with WiFi.
Then, if you ever leave your phone behind — on a cafe table, for example — your keys start beeping.
Patrons can get wired with the cafe's phone jacks and power outlets (or with caffeine).
She lives in Europe now, but has put together a Venezuelan cyber cafe, with phone booths where you listen to a loop of calls that never quite get put through, where you can sit and check your Hotmail and imagine you are beside a tropical beach.
You can imagine checking in with your phone to your favorite cafe and be able to either vote on the music that is upcoming or add your favorite tracks".
