The Sound Of Your Voice, Only Really Far Away - Plot & Excerpts
She did this every night after she finished her homework; it had become part of her routine. Some nights she didn’t have any luck at all—heavy metal night in particular offered pretty slim pickings—but Tuesday was the Girls with Guitars show, and the odds were pretty good that she’d hear at least one song that would blast through all the noise in her brain and make her sit up and say, YES! That’s it! That’s exactly it!The first two songs the deejay played were pretty lame. One was about how the singer would never meet another guy like the one who’d just dumped her, and even though Kate was only thirteen, she knew there’d be plenty more guys just like the one who got away. Boring. The second song was about baking bread. Now, Kate liked freshly baked bread as much as the next person, and she thought you should be able to write about anything you wanted, but that didn’t mean you could rhyme words like “orange” and “curtain”—words that, frankly, didn’t rhyme at all—and get away with it.But the next song was a girl singing about looking for a new life, a life where she could be exactly who she wanted to be, and maybe she’d find that life in another town, maybe in another country, she didn’t know.
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