Tuesday, October 7, 2014


“The pounding of the cylinders increased: ta-pocket-pocketa-pocketa-pocketa-pocketa.” - James Thurber “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty”

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  1. While laying in bed, i could hear her cheap, lose sandals on the stairs below: flip, flap, flip, flap.

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  2. I ran and leaped into the pool: BOOM, splish, splash.

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  3. With the crashing of my kayak over the mighty rock: booth, booth, booth.

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  4. I wake up to the sound of Christmas music, the loud and distinguishable crackle of the fireplace, and the sound of pots and pans as my mother made breakfast: clink clink clink!

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  5. The mother lion roared with power: raaaaaahhhhhh!

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  6. The raindrops constantly made an irritating noise against my window: tap...tap....tap...tap...tap.

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  7. She fell asleep to the lulling drizzle of the rain outside her window: plink, plink, plink, plink.

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  8. The sound of the frog slowly went away as I fell asleep: ribbet-ribbet-ribbet-ribbet.

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  9. The sound of my alarm clock was steady: beep-beep-beep-beep.

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  10. My brother rapidly rang the door bell: ding-dong-ding-dong-ding-dong.

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  11. As the helicopter's engine shut down, the propeller slowed down to a thump-thump-thump before it turned off completely.

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  12. When her eyes connected his she could feel her heart practically running out of her chest: thump-thump-thump-thump-thump.

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  13. In the midst of a hurricane, one could hear the furious ocean crashing against the hull: pschhh-pschhh-boom!

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  14. Ring Ring Ring, I could hear the phone ring, but I was pretending I couldn't: avoiding the call, because I knew who was on the other line....

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  15. The stones were practically screaming under his feet: crunch crunch crunch crunch crunch crunch.

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  16. I love hearing the rain on the roof: thump thump thump.

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  17. The woman looked at the child behind her and yelled in her head: ARGHHH.

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  18. The alarm went off and vibrated across my nightstand, prying me from needed sleep: buzzz- buzzz -brINGG -BRINGGGG!

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  19. The bees nosily swarmed around my head as I stole the honey from their hive: buzz-buzzz-buzzz.

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  20. I drove my fire truck up and down the street: WeeOooo WeeeOooo WeeOooo.

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  21. The babes cries began to get louder all night Waahh-waahhh-wahhh-wahhhhh.

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  22. He sat there emotionless, facing the old grandfather clock listening to it's rhythm: tick-tock-tick-tock-tick

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  24. I heard the teacher coming down the hall by the sound of her heels: click-clack-click-clack

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  25. I was making a smoothie: vmmm - vmm - vmmm!!

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  26. the boy became so nervous that the sound of his heart thumping was noticble: thump-thump, thump-thump, thump-thump.

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  27. The cat wanted to get out of the room: meow scratch-scratch-scratch.

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  28. There was a static buzz-humming from the idle television as they stared into each others' eyes: buzz-hum-buzz-hum-buzz-hum.

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  29. Despite the mechanic's best efforts, the faulty engine continued sputtering uncontrollably: putta-putta-putta-putta-put.

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  32. Rather than paying atteniton to the lesson, the students stare at the clock waiting for the bell to ring:: tik-tok-tik-tok-tik-tok.

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  33. Running through the rain, her boots clashed with the puddles: splish-splash-splish-splash.

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  34. I was sitting in the car and a motorcycle flew past us: vroom-vroom-vrooom

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  35. As the ship fired its lasers, all I could hear was: pew-pew-pew!

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  36. She rapidly turned her car to avoid a crash: SCRREEEEEECHHH!

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  37. In an attempt to make the stop light while it was still green, the man accelerated: vroom.

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  38. "Bored, I aimlessly surfed the infinite pages of Wikipedia: click ... click ... click ..."

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  39. As the car raced by I heard the engine revving: VROOM-VROOM.

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  40. She jumped in the pool to start the party: splash.

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