[6.15 / 50 Word Stories]

I made notes of the noises

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I made notes of the noises in the music that sounded like words. Angelic tongues I could only draw as shapes. The home dialed noise—scribbling ants and turning clocks. My ears bled fountains out windows—splattering from the floor to my knees—into rivers and sand formed compact banks, edged mazes.

Ben Spivey is the author of a book. He lives in a city.