Wrong Neighborhood by Sarah Parker Wolf

Author:Sarah Parker Wolf
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: fiction, suspense, short stories, suspensethriller short story
Publisher: Sarah Parker Wolf

Moving Day

“What the hell is that?” One, two, three shoves to her shoulder. “Marce, what the hell was that?”

Life slowly erupted from the opposite side of the bed as Marcy Crawford rolled onto her back. She had heard it too, but it didn’t stop her from throwing a look of contempt at her husband Tom. “What time is it?”

“4 o’clock. What the hell is that?”

“I don’t know, but it’s rumbly. Go check it out, would ya?” she rolled back over. Damn neighbors. By the time she got back to sleep, she’d have forty-five minutes maybe an hour before they had to get up and start the day.

Tom kicked the covers from his feet and tiptoed down the stairs as if he didn’t want whatever was outside to hear him coming.

Marcy kept her eyes closed, in denial that she was indeed awake. About five minutes later, Tom came back into the room and went straight to the windows at the front of the house.

“Well? Meteor? Teenagers?”

“Moving van,” he said, his head stuck between the curtains.

“At four a.m.?” That was enough to get Marcy out of bed and over to the window. Sure enough, a full U-Haul had pulled up to the house next door, raring to go before dawn had even thought about cracking. She flopped back into bed. “There wasn’t even a sign on that house. Did whatshisname say anything to you?”

“No, nothing.” Tom got in next to her. “I just saw him out mowing on Saturday and waved at him.”

“You know what that means then.”

“Hmmm,” he nodded, then changed his mind and shook his head. “No, what does that mean?”

“Foreclosure. Bank is taking it,” Marcy said and curled back up.

Tom considered it for a minute, lay back down and fell asleep.

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