Music is an interior journey. It will deliver you beyond Mom. Beyond dinner and muddy sneakers and your-father-will-be-home-any-minute to a place where authority is deflected with a knowing smirk and a toss of blond curls. You will live in a different world, the one you hear when the records play. You can’t explain how or what it will look like. But you know you’ll get there.

That’s from These Memories Can’t Wait, my “Fierce Short” now available for download from Fierce Ink Press.

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