Period Piece

By Jeffrey Anderson

Sisters Brooke and Leah go to see a matinee of Romeo and Juliet. This period piece fails to take them back in time. Instead, the movie and the events that follow come to define a special moment in their lives, a different kind of period piece of discovery and growth.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Jeffrey Anderson
• Release date: May 22, 2014
• ISBN: 9781311527387

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Period Piece

by

Jeffrey Anderson

Copyright 2014 by Jeffrey Anderson

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Period Piece

O.K. So it really didn’t make sense to take Leah to a movie, especially not a period romance spoken in verse using archaic Elizabethan English. Not only did it not make sense, one might even consider it cruel, making a deaf girl sit through a two-hour movie that was mainly experienced, and understood, through its sounds—maybe not as bad as taking her to a symphony but close. That’s more or less what the snotty high school girls two rows behind were whispering back and forth, though in