A Great Day at the Park

Flash Fiction

A Great Day at the Park

“What is that noise?”

“What noise?

“Listen…”

Jeff listened, but didn’t hear a noise. “I don’t hear anything… What did it sound like?”

“A noise…”

“Right, but a creek, or a rustle? Something knocking against something? Or an animal, something alive?”

“Hold it, hold it,” said Alex, “It sounded like a noise! Like something different from what we’re hearing right now.”

“No clue huh”

“A noise, just a noise. Not loud, not too soft, not words, just a noise that I didn’t know what made it. Which is why I asked you if you heard it.”

“I guess I didn’t hear it… I was busy looking for money.”

“You were looking for money at the park?”

“Yeah, people drop money on the sidewalks here by accident sometimes. I thought if we found some, we could get some candy.”

“How often have you found money on the sidewalk?”

“Well, I found a penny once. But my friend Danny found five dollars once!”

“Well, that was cool, I bet that doesn’t happen often. Ooh! There’s the noise! Did you hear it that time?”

“Yeah! It sounded like it was over by that bush!” he pointed to a bush a few feet away. They rushed over.

What the found was a bird stuck in the bush. It seemed to have a string wrapped around its leg, and stuck in the bush. The boys carefully started to help. Alex took hold of the bird while Jeff unwrapped the string from its leg, and then they let it go. It flew off quickly.

“We better toss that string too so that doesn’t happen again!” Alex said.

As they pulled it out, they found a soaking wet twenty-dollar bill that was stuck on the other end!

It turned out to be great day at the park!