The sound of freedom

Living near an Air Force Base, occasionally you’ll hear a jet going by. And even though they’re not supposed to go sonic overland, but you still feel the occasional shudder or window rattle. That’s the sound of freedom, said the head librarian. Smiling. I nodded, handed over my card and she slid the book back to me. Then I heard aloud crash and the whole building shook. One of the fighters accidentally dropped a bomb and the shockwave took down City Hall. The aquarium in the kids section and shattered and books had fallen off of all of the shelves.

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