headphones

I write while listening to music, mostly because the world beyond my headphones is too chaotic.

I would often sit in the corner of the room wearing Dad's massive headphones, carefully replaying the records time after time. It was something I did frequently throughout my childhood with music, comedy and film, inspiring my own creative imagination, the headphones rendering the experience intensely personal, as though it were all happening inside my own head.

She looked at the girl in the chair and she saw what youth was. It was oblivious, with things in its ears.