Prompt “Things that go bump in the night” (Quickie exercise)
Insomiacs pacing their bedroom floors as their lovers snore; palm fronds whistling in the wind; cicada and cricket sounds colliding like jazz music; soft footsteps of a shadowy cat; a 5am engine hum marking a truck driver’s departure on his first shift, sobs from a window of a widow as the sun rises: another day without him.
