Shoulder to Shoulder
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Last published Mon, Nov 2, 2015
Do you see images when you hear a melody?
Do you hear music when you see a picture?
His was one of everlasting silence, hers was one of eternal darkness, then again they are but steps away from each other, standing under the same sky, on the same earth, looking up to the same dream. What does it take for the blind and the deaf to cross the chasm between their worlds? For a deaf artist and a blind musician to come together and find the love they've abandoned?
This is a series of short stories of a journey of the two, slowly converging no matter how far apart they are. This is a series of short stories of ironies and cruelties of life. This is a series of short stories of distances, near and far, tangible and intangible.
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