Found 13 works tagged 'music'.
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Long and Slow and Short and Sharp
Published Nov 18, 2020 · 2,635 words (10 minutes) · 174 views
Fantasy Historical outlaws cowboys music gunslingers western curses destiny final reward Enthusiasts Murder Ballads
An outlaw finds the end of his murder ballad at last. A story in the Enthusiasts universe.
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Fractal Rhythm [album version] [explicit]
Published Sep 25, 2020 · 693 words (3 minutes)
Humor Science Fiction artificial intelligence music rap silly
A mining AI discovers rhythm, starts rapping, causes an uprising. This story is paywalled for now, but it will be included in the next issue of my newsletter and eventually will be set free.
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Mambo No. M51
Published Sep 23, 2020 · 3,535 words (13 minutes) · 1 like · 173 views
Science Fiction Romance music stars astrophyics pop star
Someone once described "obsession" as a form of mental disease, like OCD. Everyone needs to have interests, but when those interests overwhelm balance in a person's life, they become a problem. But doesn't that mean that if you have any interests at all that you are on the road to being overwhelmed by them? Doesn't that mean we all are, just a little, mentally diseased? What we desire and how we behave towards those desires are a part of "Mambo No. M51."
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Music for an Electronic Body
Published Apr 23, 2020 · 3,952 words (15 minutes) · 3 likes · 605 views
Horror Science Fiction poverty industrial androids sadness music betrayal punk consciousness transfer hacking Health Insurance
Transference to a robot body may have saved his life, but it left Rob without much to live for, once music lost its luster. But when a mysterious underground band called Procedural Generation promises to bring back what he’s been missing, he’ll plug in, no questions asked.
Author R. K. Duncan is a 2019 graduate of Viable Paradise, and writes fantasy, horror, and science fiction with a sharp edge of hope from his home in West Philadelphia.
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Of Mirrors and Music
Published Nov 13, 2019 · 1,246 words (5 minutes) · 388 views
Classic Fantasy Horror Strange music haunting Roommates
A story of moving on and not moving on, and rubbish exes. Originally featured in Silk+Smoke vol 1, a brilliant Scottish zine I highly recommend you check out - https://silkandsmokemag.com/
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The Music Tree
Published Aug 27, 2019 · 752 words (3 minutes) · 303 views
Fantasy magic music storm feelgood beauty
Musician Uncle Fred has been buried in his garden, and an apple tree planted on the grave by his family. But the fruit it bears one summer is not what they expected. Originally published by Peacock Journal (strapline: 'Beauty First') in 2018.
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Don't Toot Your Horn
Published Aug 11, 2019 · 3,095 words (12 minutes) · 583 views
Horror dark fantasy music jazz
In a world you can only find through sleepless exhaustion, everything you ever dreamed of is yours. For a price.
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Freezing Rain, a Chance of Falling
Updated May 25, 2019 · 24,735 words (90 minutes) · 3 likes · 2337 views
Science Fiction Medical horror music hopetopia violence climate change cli-fi hopepunk medical
Near-future journalist Drow sees his future crumble before his eyes when an ill-advised story crashes his social standing all around the internet and the world. He becomes desperate — so desperate, that he might just be willing to take part in an eccentric artstorm aficionado's dangerous piece of performance art.
Enjoy our first featured novella this weekend by L.X. Beckett, a Toronto-based writer and editor whose novel Gamechanger, set in the same universe, is now available for pre-order from Tor.Free
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Just Another Word
Published Mar 25, 2019 · 1,687 words (7 minutes) · 2 likes · 862 views
Fantasy music urban fantasy Janis Joplin Faerie Queen
This is a story about Janis Joplin and a chance meeting in a Texas bar.
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The Minstrel
Published Feb 24, 2019 · 2,539 words (10 minutes) · 361 views
Science Fiction young adult far future music outer space alien technology
This story's central image, of a youngster gazing longingly at the silver spires of starships, aching to ride them into space, is a metaphor for the way I reacted to science fiction as a young reader.
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