The Hearing Heart
           The group of teenagers was watching the young man carry the heavy bags of feed out of the farm store.

            “There’s the ‘dummy’ again,” the blonde seventeen year old boy said to the others standing around.

            “The correct term is deaf/mute,” one of the girls said. “Nobody says deaf and dumb any more.”

            “Well, my dad says ‘dummy’ and if it’s good enough for him, it’s goo...