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THE HISTORY OF IRISH MUSIC
By Louise Yeiser

In class, his voice sounded like a mostly-monochromatic herd of gnats circling my head and dive-bombing sporadically, with no warning. He vibrated his words down the back of his throat, then flung them out in scattered sound waves -- muffled, guttural -- with quick accents in staccato dots divided by barely-there pauses. I daydreamed of the quiet café down the street where I could find the perfect corner for drinking coffee and writing profound thoughts in my notebook with my favorite pen, the one that glided like a gel and wrote like a ballpoint. But everything changed once the music began.

Louise Yeiser has been published in Modern Witches, Wizards and Magic and Six Sentences , and online at Tuesday Shorts, Six Sentences, Flashquake and Pen Pricks. She studies creative writing at Carlow University in Pittsburgh and Ireland.

© 2008 Louise Yeiser

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