"This is a truly special book, one that captured my heart from the very first line...THE ASTONISHING THING feels like a bit of a miracle and we all could use a miracle." --Holly Chamberlin, author of Seashell Season and Summer With My Sisters

Jack Woods has always been into music. It's his life, his escape, and he believes that it will be his future. However, his father wants him to take over their family's business straight out of college. So, they make a deal. Dad will pay for the first semester of college only. And by the end of that semester, Jack must be signed to a promising record deal that can help him advance in his music. If not, he'll return home and train to be Dad's successor. Kathryn White is a music prodigy. After breaking up with her long-time, first and only boyfriend, she goes to college for an escape. Then, Jack overhears her playing the guitar. When he picks up her raw, talented, beautiful tone, he knows immediately that she's the one. She'll be the one that will help him get signed. Instantly, he recruits her, without her say. He accounts for everything: money, food, and even a place to meet up. What he doesn't consider is the fact that she's deaf. The perfect music partner for him...well, she's deaf.

it's a place where smoke hovers and sorrows bleed. a place where one can go to dwell amongst the lost.

they were miles and miles apart, with a promise of forever.

june 8, 1984. how apt.

"Godspeed you."

Upon pages and pages of entries How many pages have I wasted to compose our feelings? We've put down all our emotions But for some reasons, one line remain

Letting it is better than keeping it in.

I've always written for the wrong reason.

i will shed myself of humanity and hold it within my aching chest, as if it will stop the burning. [ © jude rigor two-thousand-&-thirteen ]