A collection of seven diverse short stories about pianos and pianists.
-A woman ponders the significance of the piano's role within her relationship with her
father.
-A lounge pianist negotiates an alternative to paying his massive debt to the city most
notorious gangster.
-A man is abducted for the sole purpose of playing the piano during his captor's dinners.
-Who wouldn't accept $25,000 to teach someone how to play the piano and write a song
in one week?
-Two men (and a custodian) attempt to unlock the mystery behind a haunted organ.
-A haunting opera poster and grand piano follows a former singer's grandchild through
life.
-A sociopathic virtuoso offers a favor to two elderly women.
Britton, Joshua: - Joshua Britton is the author of two short story collections, The Perks of Being Alive and Tadpoles, and the novelette, Heart Decisions, and also edited The Notes Will Carry Me Home, an anthology of music writings. Joshua has had fiction and non-fiction published in Cobalt Review, Tickets to Midnight, Tethered by Letters, The Bombay Review, Frontier Times, The Tarantino Chronicles, and many more. Also an active freelance trombonist, Joshua has released the solo album, Just Sayin', and fronts the ska-jazz project, Josh and the Britt-Tones.www.joshua-britton.com.
Harman, Jessica: - Jessica Harman was born in Montreal in 1974. She holds a B.A. in Creative Writing from Concordia University (Montreal). She attended a session over Zoom, during COVID, at The Writers' Workshop at The University of Iowa. Her poems have appeared in "Arion," "Bellevue Literary Review," "Nimrod," and "Spare Change News." She has lectured on poetry (and phenomenology in poetry) at adult education centersin The Greater Boston Area. She taught Creative Writing at "Go-Getters," a mental health wellness rehabilitation center in Salisbury, Maryland. She has several books of poetry published: "Dream Catcher" (2013) and "The Landscape Revolving around Us" (2019), both from Adrich Pres (Kelsay Books). Another poetry collection, "Drifting Tomatoes," was published by Alien Buddha Press in 2024. Her collection of short stories, "In Praise of One of Rebecca's Strongest Traits," was published by Wilderness House Press in 2020. She has several books of fiction published by Alien Buddha Press, including "A Cup of Truth at The H
Wright, Daniel W.: - Daniel W. Wright is a poet, editor, and fiction writer. Wright is the author of poetry chapbook Gods of a Former World (Crying Heart Press, 2025), the full-length poetry collection The Unheard Music (Kung Fu Treachery, 2025), and the novel Call Center (Back of the Class, 2024). He is also the author of four other full-length collections of poetry, five poetry chapbooks, a novella, a short story collection, and co-author of four poetry splits. His work has appeared in numerous print and online journals including Chiron Review, Book of Matches, and Gasconade Review. Wright currently resides in St. Louis, MO where you can usually find him in a bar or a bookstore.
