The New Yorker: "The Knocking" by David Means

On the plus side, this doesn't seem to be an excerpt from a novel. On the other hand, it's not much of a story. Flash fiction that needs considerable editing, maybe.The narrator has moved into an apartment building in New York and almost immediately discovers that his upstairs neighbor is fond of knocking—in many different ways. The story explores many of these different types of knocking, although some of the knocking doesn't sound like knocking (incessant moaning, grief-filled...