In for a Penny
“The October night was unseasonably warm, the window open to catch the land breeze that drifted through the screen, ruffling Ed’s hair. It hadn’t been the lights that awakened him, although they cast an eerie, moving glow on the bedroom wall opposite the window; he had been up and around anyway, disturbed by odd nighttime noises, unable to sleep, his troubles going around in his head. He and Lisa had argued late last night, and had left the argument unresolved.
Somewhere around four o’clock ever...y small noise had conspired to awaken him: the slowly dripping faucet in the bathroom, Lisa’s rolling over in bed, the early-morning chatter of Lisa’s parakeets in their cage downstairs. And then he had heard a low, unidentifiable humming noise, like bees in an immense hive. He had gotten up and gone downstairs, draping the parakeet cage before searching for the source of the noise, going out onto the front porch, where it was quieter, the sound evidently blocked by the house itself. By the time he had gotten back upstairs he was fully awake, and it was only then that he had noticed the oddly moving lights shining in through the window.MoreLess
Somewhere around four o’clock ever...y small noise had conspired to awaken him: the slowly dripping faucet in the bathroom, Lisa’s rolling over in bed, the early-morning chatter of Lisa’s parakeets in their cage downstairs. And then he had heard a low, unidentifiable humming noise, like bees in an immense hive. He had gotten up and gone downstairs, draping the parakeet cage before searching for the source of the noise, going out onto the front porch, where it was quieter, the sound evidently blocked by the house itself. By the time he had gotten back upstairs he was fully awake, and it was only then that he had noticed the oddly moving lights shining in through the window.MoreLess
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