Thrown Back: Chapter 3
Some were familiar, the chirping of a cricket or the drone of a cicada, but some were entirely new to him.
The Beauty Within
More like somewhere between the fluttering of cicada and butterfly wings. and with her newfound lift, ocellus left the floor.
Ragnarok - XXV
For all the use they were, they might as well have all been dirt and gravel- -in the wide cicada haunted summer twilight, the smell of dry jasmine turned to gasoline and on the porch the dark eyed man threw down the empty fuming can.
Symbia:Beginning
By the late afternoon, the heat was settling into a comfortable oven-bake, concrete shimmering, cicadas singing harshly. ben tromped out of school, looking forward to a cold shower.
Our Goddess - Ch 44 - Future and Past
She listened as summer cicadas sang and autumn rains rattled the roof. and all the while, inara never moved. "for five years, i waited, telling myself i was resting, recuperating.
Heart of the Forest ~ Chapter 17
As afternoon turned to evening, as the whistling and chittering of crickets joined the ever-present sounds of cicadas, the two - wolf and lynx, sulla and lannon, hunter and _something_- sat paw in paw, head on shoulder, looking out over the ghostly shadows
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.
Scales and Honor: The Shattered God: Chapter 15
With every step the sounds around, them were getting ever louder, either by the bird's calls, or the howling buzz of the cicadas. the _true_ path that fremra pointed out, was one that had p_olished_ stones every few dozen feet.
A Lesson in Hauntings
They watched the sky turn pink, then yellow, then steel blue, and listened to the birdsong and cicadas in the sagebrush as the high desert woke to life around their cabin. they moved only to pass the bottle back and forth.
Empty and Rising: Second Movement
He knows he is hearing manmade music in cicadas' mating calls and assigning the metallic tang of an unwashed spoon to the taste of fresh-spilled blood on the forest floor, but the significance of it troubles him.
Names Long Lost
The first thing zayin noticed was the sound of crickets and cicadas around him, something he wasn't used to hearing often. the sound was foreign to him, something that he had only really ever heard in movies.
Stellar Wayfarer: Three
By now sensor data is in, and our mysterious friend is identified as an old cicada class frigate, the predecessor to the horizon class.