99 word prompt : cacophony
August 13, 2021, prompt: In 99 words (no more, no less), write a story, using cacophony. You can use the word or show discordant sound inaction. How can you create literary cacophony with your words? This one might be of interest to poets as a literary device. Go where the prompt leads!
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Summer. Time for fans in the window. In the kitchen, there’s a ceiling fan, and a window fan cools the concrete floor where dogs like to lay.
Each fan sings a different pitch, gentle background music when I used to sit on the steps to watch clouds float by.
Once, a cacophony of crickets, katydids, birdsong, and wind flowing through the pine needles blended together.
A peaceful sound.
People moved from city to country. They play music so loud you wonder if their children are going to be deaf before the age of 15.
Now, there is no peace.
Sound is so personal one man’s peace is another’s carcophany! 💜
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It’s like going to a concert to listen to a pianist play Debussy’s solos, and Metallica rumbles into the concert hall and started playing “Master of Puppets” in the middle of Clair de lune.
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Yes …but that almost sounds like fun 💜
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Only if you’re tone deaf and like going to clubs.
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Pardon😏😏😏😏😏
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“You” in terms of anyone who thinks it’s a good thing to play Metallica while a Debussy concert is going on. I’ve been to a Metallica concert. It was a lot of fun. I didn’t expect anyone to come out on stage playing Debussy when I walked in. 😂😂
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No I think the would of got lynched 💜
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Honestly I do get exactly what you are saying 😂
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I figured you were joking.
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😉😉😉😉
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Dang shame when you have to run fans or ac to block out neighbor noise.
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When you live in the city, noise is expected. When you live in the country, you’re here to enjoy the quiet. Wish people could respect the quiet.
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And do not get me started on light pollution…
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The cacophony provided by nature nurtures more than that disrupted by neighbors.
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It would be nice to be nurtured. Often times it’s like I’m at a stoplight in my car next to “that guy” who has to have his bass so loud the my car is vibrating to the “boom…boom…boom.”
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I have trouble writing without blaring some loud heavy music through my headphones, though that might be due to the constant distracting noise from the kiddos. I love having them home, but I fear my own hearing might be diminished post-lockdown too.
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My heart goes out to you, and I pray for your sanity. 🙂 My children are in their 40’s, but I still remember some of the sibling fights.
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Thanks! Yes, the sibling fights can get intense but surprisingly they’d all choose being home together instead of at school.
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You must be an excellent teacher.
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I appreciate the thought, and I like to think I do well too, but I’m pretty sure it’s just that the kids prefer sibling rivalries over schoolyard social pressures – I can relate.
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