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stories_100.
Title: Things that Go Bump in the Night
Fandom: Jeremiah
Character: Mister Smith, Kurdy
Challenge: 37. Sound
Words: 100
Kurdy stood in the woods outside the Mountain's southwestern entrance and scowled as white hot tracers arched across the midnight sky. The flashes of light were so bright they all but obliterated the canopy of stars. A cacophony of gunfire, underscored by the deep whump! of mortar shells, filled the crisp air with a bombardment of sound that could be felt to the bone.
"-celebrate with them?"
Kurdy felt rather than heard Smith's words. "Hell no," he shouted back. "I'm hanging here. The last thing I need is to start the year getting my ass shot off by friendlies!"