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    How to Hear Over Music
    How to Hear Over Music
    How to Hear Over Music
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    How to Hear Over Music

    By Michael Bonady

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    A business trip that is not really a business trip at all. Disinterested youth. Transgressions. An old car on the open road.

    This is a story of discovery and regret, set against the backdrop of a discontent home and things unspoken.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMichael Bonady
    Release dateMar 27, 2013
    ISBN9781301618781
    How to Hear Over Music
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    Michael Bonady

    My first full length novel, A Butterfly Came to Rest, is now available in all formats, as well as my short fiction collection, Our Path is Paved in Echoes. I'm currently working on some new pieces that I will be releasing for free here on Smashwords, so stop back by soon. Thanks for reading!

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      How to Hear Over Music - Michael Bonady

      How to Hear Over Music

      Michael Bonady

      Published by Michael Bonady at Smashwords

      Copyright © 2013 Michael Bonady

      All rights reserved.

      1 Headphones

      He listened to music in his headphones.

      Turn that shit down, his mom yelled from her seat on the right side of the couch.

      Two seats over from him. But he couldn’t hear. She was watching one of her programs, as she called them. I’m trying to watch my Program, she yelled but he couldn’t hear. She grabbed a magazine, rolled it up and hit his leg. Not hard but she wanted to get his attention. He ignored her as expected. Didn’t even look over to her side of the couch. Turned his music down enough though. She smiled. He could hear the TV now despite the pulsating beat and crashing guitars fuzzy like kiwis. So could she. You should watch this one, she said, It’s about a murderer who fakes his own death and then joins the police force as someone else, oooh he is creepy, don’t worry though, they’ll catch him, they’ll catch him alright.

      His dad was sitting on the deck out back smoking his pipe. It was best if he didn’t try and interfere with

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