From the story archive · Fictional encounter
Front row seats to the symphony orchestra. The piece builds to a dramatic pause before the final crescendo—absolute perfect silence—when the barking spider decides to contribute its solo.
The conductor's eyebrow raised ever so slightly, but the show continued. The elderly woman next to me leaned over and whispered, "I believe that was in the key of B flat. Quite complementary to Beethoven."
She handed me her card afterward - turns out she runs some kind of educational website about natural acoustics. Apparently there's a whole classification system for these things! The internet really does have everything.