Signing

Sometimes the word “love” doesn’t need to be spoken.

A deaf man and a hearing woman fall in love.
This is a story about reaching across distances, and the things we do to get through to each other.

This is a short story, approximately 6,500 words. (15 pages)

An earlier version of this short story was published in The Iowa Review. The story is also an excerpt from Teri Kanefield’s novel, Turn On the Light So I Can Hear.