Weekly writing challenge: Snapshots

“Whaaaaa–?”

and I’m awake. What time is it? – there’s very little light coming through the blind …

Surely it wasn’t Lui who woke me?

I listen for repeated sounds of feline claws scratching at the bedroom door, but hear nothing. Lying there, swearing roundly and knowing something must’ve disturbed my sleep, I’m suddenly made aware of what it was, as a trembling, swelling, avian cry is repeated.

Koel. A bloody KOEL. Bummer: it’s koel season already?!

I’m listening to the first – the harbinger of man...