non alignment pact
She still listened to Bach, Schubert, the clean geometry of sound she had lived inside for years. But something else started pushing in. Music with fewer rules and more nerve. […]
Bob Wiseman
My friend’s older brother
He wasn’t always sad. That would have been something we could point at and name. Instead he was a low drag, like walking through syrup nobody else could see. Everything […]
phillip glass
He decided early that Philip Glass was too simple. Just insufficient. The kind of music that seemed to repeat itself because it ran out of ideas and hoped no one […]
the nurse
He met her in a hallway that smelled like old coffee. He wasn’t sick. Not in the way that required urgency. But something had gone wrong, a fainting spell, the […]
divided mind
She began to notice the voice it in the middle of a scale. “Too tense.”“Again.”“Why are you rushing?” It was not loud, but precise. Familiar in the way some criticisms […]
down, down, down, down, down
Throughout the tour I stretched each day in hotel rooms. Lot of cat cow, lot of planks. Some shoulder stands. Not much headway unfortunately for the sore hamstring and sore […]
temper
He was known for his touch. Not volume. Touch. The way he could make a piano sound like it was remembering something instead of performing it. He built a modest […]
spying on mister cage
She preferred the term observer, which sounded civic-minded, almost educational. After all, she lived next door to John Cage, and if one was to live beside a man like that, […]
Olive
Liz didn’t tell people at first. It sounded like a joke, or worse, a brand. But that wasn’t what she meant. The dog’s name was Olive. A medium-sized creature with […]
storage locker
He lost the storage locker on a Tuesday, which is the day the universe reserves for quiet corrections. Just an email informing him the Museum of Former Intentions was no […]