Night Noises

 

She was used to city noises- cars and sirens, music and other people’s conversations. And the city was never completely dark. There were always streetlights and spotlights and the lights from neighbors’ windows.

Out here in the middle of nowhere, there were only wild noises- crickets and frogs, owls and coyotes. And the darkness smothered her like heavy black velvet shot through with stars.

It made her uneasy, surrounded by only wild things and darkness.

It made her afraid.

When she told her grandmother about it, her grandmother laughed.

“Lordy, girl. You only have to worry when the noise stops.”