If you go to a park with trees now, you will probably see a lot of holes in the ground. Holes are usually made by living things, so what made these holes? Cicadas! These insects spend two or three years underground, and they come out at the end of the rainy season. When they come out of the ground, they are still nymphs, and they don’t have wings. They go up a tree and get out of their shells. Now they have wings, and they can fly. They start to chirp. The parks are no longer quiet. They are filled with sound. You can hear cicadas chirping from the morning to the evening. This is the sound of summer in Japan.     (121 words)

You can send me a comment or your own story at jaremaga@gmail.com