On Cicadas and Symbolism | Writer’s Notes

Miniature writing lessons from my 100-word microfiction story, “Cicada.”

When I was a child, my siblings and I would spend summers at my grandparents’ house, playing outside and exploring their farm.

Behind their house was a massive tree that dwarfed all the others. It was taller than the house and even the nearby barn. In the summers, it provided some much-needed shade from the sun, and in the winters, its needles would blan…