Ms. Celestial!
The hum of cameras filled the air like cicadas, their droning song a delight for the girls posing atop the poles, and a nightmare for the bedraggled losers pulling themselves from the frigid waters of the pools.
The Order of Things
"could be a lunar cycle, could be the seasons, could be the seventeen-year cicadas for all i know." she crossed her arms and shrugged. "you should know something, fox." "what?" "most of our folk tales about this stuff have bad endings."
The Deer Hunters (M/M TORTURE)
It's like those bugs in the summer, cicadas? this buzz, like ringing ears, but it starts to vibrate between my ears. i keep trying to hit the dog, i kick at him, i flail my arms, i do anything. i can't hit him, it's like a nightmare.
An Ounce of Prevention
cicada songs in the summer months, all accented only by the sound of chain and derailleur, and the percussion of twenty-nine inch wheels making mincemeat of tree roots.
Expanding Hells Inventory - Chapter 1
cicadas chirped in the background while his phone illuminated his face and upper body in the dark, secluded park. he was used to the danger, but not naïve. and so he clenched a large blade against his waist tightly.
My Unplanned Summer Vacation Ch 2
I think is called cicadas, they sound really loud but not so annoying. this village is so quiet and peaceful. a village like this one it seems like everyone knows each other. it was quite a long walk.
Heart of the Forest ~ Chapter 20
All three wolves lifted their head to listen to it, the turn of melody a sharp contrast to the droning of cicadas and other insects all around. the younger wolf paused in thought for a moment.
Ain't no War Without Blood
Keeping watch was boring, i heard; frogs, owls, snakes, feral wolves and coyotes, crickets and cicadas but not one yank. i stayed awake until the sun began to highlight the horizon a deep red, then i walked back over to wakeup ernest.
Addiction - Chapter One: Breakdown
Instead i just listened to the passing of the occasional car and the piercing drone of a few cicadas. i usually enjoyed the sound of nature, the scents of the nearby wildflowers and grasses, the oily aroma of the truck and of the ninety-percent humidity.
Conflict
I could hear the hissing of cicadas all around us, plus the mournful melodies of the higurashi cicada. "i honestly can't get enough of that insect's call... so delightful." rarity sighed.
The Price of Knowing
If the gory sight before them wasn't enough there was a cicada-like groan and chirp softly echoing out to greet them, right before the smell did.
Belleraphon Chapter 7
Resting in that serene barn, the sounds of locusts and cicadas outside and the occasional hum of a breeze through the cracks, i found myself soothed slightly, and drifted off once more.