Come Together

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For the first hour or so after his braces began picking up KZEL, Kevin didn’t mind. The deejay was playing Paul McCartney’s new CD, and Kevin secretly liked those old rock ‘n’ roll duffers who carried on well into their forties. Of course he couldn’t admit that to his friends, but fortunately none of them could hear what his braces were playing. It went straight from his teeth through the jawbone right into his ears.

He’d just been to the orthodontist, who’d had the radio station playing in his office while he used a new computerized gadget to adjust the wires on Kevin’s braces, so Kevin hadn’t noticed that anything strange had happened until he left the office. He considered going back and having the braces readjusted, but the idea of picking up radio on them kind of amused him, so he walked the three blocks back to his high school and went to sixth period English class, where he hummed softly with the music while Mrs. Cooper talked about Huckleberry Finn.

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