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Submitted to Contest #274
The north Georgia mountains rang with screams. Allison wasn’t sure she’d ever be able to get used to it. There was lots of noise in LA, screaming included sometimes, but not like this. This was unsettling, how every afternoon, when the sun was at its highest and hottest, the woods around her would ring loud with an incessant, droning wail. Cicadas, as she found out, were responsible for the screaming. Large, flying insects swarmed the area in the summer, littering the sky and the ground. Allison hated them. She could deal with th...
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