The Cosmic Symphony
I hear the symphony of string theory
And marvel at the score and the performance
With God the composer, and nature the conductor
I have to believe there is magic in the stars
~ Codex Continuum
These songs are from the ‘Song and Story’ series (S&S),
where a novel or novella was inspired by the song,
or flash fiction (FF, less than a thousand words).
Music Videos
These songs are not related to a longer
narrative story series, though each has a
blurb fiction tale to tell.
SparrowHawk
The wind beneath its wings, the hawk commanded the valley sky. Defiant, a sparrow saw the hawk and darted from crag to crevice.
The chicks needed to feed.
The hawk be damned.
Featured in: Song and Story Series: SparrowHawk, Flash fiction
Lady In Red
The lady in red is back, and living on the Sunset Strip.
Her street ends at the ocean.
His ends at her door.
Featured in: Song and Story Series: Lady In Red, Flash fiction
I made my first set of drums from 5-gallon buckets filled with various levels of water. Add a stand-up lamp post as a cymbal and you bet the neighbors loved that.
I was eight when I got my first guitar, but my sister sat on it. So, I switched to the drums. They were made to beat on. I figured they’d hold up to the challenge. One day, I was doing a good paying gig with a honky-tonk piano player. We had the barefoot crowd all worked up, and they were dancing, and drinking, and spinning, and… a big lady fell into my drums. Thanks to my policy of not drinking on the job, I had the cat-like reflexes to survive the friendly assault.
The drums? Wasted.
A road musician’s life is a strange life. One of the fun things about it is the intimacy with the crowd. One of the bad things about it – is the intimacy with the crowd.