Six Sentence Stories - Noise

As a young mother, I fell in love with children's books, many of which have brought back memories of not only reading them aloud to my children, but repeating phrases from them long after the children were grown, and their children were grown. The cue for the Six Sentence Stories - Noise made me smile when I thought about the book, Too Much Noise, by Ann McGovern and illustrated by Simms Taback. Altogether now, "Ah, said Peter." Thank you Denise of Girlie on the Edge's Blog for this week's prompt.

The quiet ticking of the wall clock, not missing a beat, was an evening sound she decided.

When the refrigerator motor chimed in with its humming, followed by light raindrops plinking on the skylight overhead, she closed her book, and her eyelids, and just listened to the noise orchestrate.

A thump on the roof, perhaps caused by a nocturnal scavenger of some sort out investigating the territory was quiet in comparison to the ruckus caused by the screaming cries of a fisher she once heard at the front door years earlier.

Soft drones of jets soaring high above through the inky sky, possibly on important missions to deliver scarce materials that could save lives, were comforting sounds this night.

The placidity of her evening was calming and allowed her to put aside the disturbing news that seemed to come in waves of emotional upheaval in so many ways throughout the day.

With a sigh, she opened her book again and read once more the words that brought her the much needed peace she was seeking.