It’s a very long time since I posted any fiction on this page, and as I was thinking that, serendipitously a message arrived from Julia with a new 100WCGU.
“Have you heard,” said Carol, “the corner house has been let.”
“Oh that’s good. I haven’t liked seeing it empty. Who’s moving in? A family?”
“No, a few nurses sharing.”
“How nice.”
Rosemary imagined fresh-faced young women; serious, caring, calm. Metaphorical cool hands on the neighbourhood’s brow; Anna Neagle playing Edith Cavell, selfless and saintlike. Or was she thinking of Audrey Hepburn?
She was unprepared for the reality.
Soon she longed for cold weather, heavy rain, blizzards.
“Please let me sleep,” she prayed each unrelenting night, as music and shouting spilled from their house through her tightly closed windows.
Isobel (and Cat)'s Blog 
Oh dear I hope this isn’t real in any way!
I have suffered from noisy neighbours talking in their gardens far into the night on warm evenings and keeping me awake. But some people I know had the nurses from hell living near them.
Aaaaaa…i get u. Especially when my own roommates doesn`t know how to turn off her alarm at 3 in the morning for almost the whole semester! ^^
Couldn’t you help her?
Haha..because i always help her..it makes me pissed off..^^ why bother to set alarm? Even im mad..she doesnt care at all..*sigh* ignorant people..she’s my senior..
Thank you for taking up your pen Isobel. I can imagine what that must be like for folks with that situation to deal with. Love the Anna Neagle reference! Loved those films 🙂
Thanks Julia. And thanks for setting the challenge.
We have had neighbors like that in the past, only it was dirt bikes and ATVs running all over. A new house has been built just down the road from us… our fingers are crossed.
Nice to see you writing fiction again.
I have been writing some fiction but not here and not flash fiction. It is a discipline i really like. So who knwos, I may get into it again. 🙂
Noisy neighbours are hard to deal with.
Ha ha, love your take on this. I could not see how you were going to weave in the ‘please let me sleep’ until the very last bit. Nice comical twist.
Glad you enjoyed it. Thanks.
Brilliant piece, great take on the prompt 😊
Thanks. I think *brilliant* may be stretching things a bit far!
Nasty when your sleep is disturbed because of neighbors. Good one! ❤
Nurses like to party hardy… who knew? :O