title: Stories for the Inner Ear
author:  Cliff Durfee 
description: Cliff Durfee resides just north of San Diego in Encinitas, California. He received a B.A. in Education from Arizona State University, and worked for over a decade in the area of complex computer software design. It was clear early on that his primary talent and joy was through creativity. He pursued this in a major way by founding Live Love Laugh. This company published his first two books and a gift product he developed, called Sprinkles, which sold to over 2700 stores over a period of seven years. He has used his creativity to develop very innovative websites for clients, including My Referral Club, which assists many business clubs across the nation in networking and business referrals. For over thirty years, he has been devoted to personal and spiritual growth, developing intuition, and supporting people in aliveness, love, and laughter.
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  _This story is also available for download from major ebook retailers._
  
  
  He was an old man who lived in a modest gonfab, and over the last eighty hours
  his Eyes™ and Ears™ had begun to fail. In the first forty hours, he had
  ignored the increasingly strident sounds of the city of Vanille and focused on
  teaching the boy who lived with him. But after another forty hours the old man
  could no longer stand the Doppler-affected murmur of travelers on the
  slidewalks outside, and the sight of the boy’s familiar deformities became
  overwhelming. It made the boy sad to see the old man’s stifled revulsion, so
  he busied himself by sliding the hanging plastic sheets of the inflatable
  dwelling into layers that dampened the street noise. The semitransparent veils
  were stiff with grime and they hung still and useless like furled, ruined
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