Sentences with phrase «screen slam shut»

She heard the front door open and the slap and squeak of the aluminum screen slam shut.

Not exact matches

And if I'd closed my eyes I could've seen what the building had been forty or fifty years before that, back when I was a young woman: a screen door slamming shut, oil lamps lit and sputtering black smoke, dusty horses hitched to the posts out front where the iceman unloaded every Wednesday afternoon, the last stop on his route before he headed up out of the holler, the bed of his truck an inch deep with cold water.

And real, wooden screen doors... there's nothing like that «slap» when it slams shut.