music - Stories

Various essays, many on LGBTI2S+ subjects, but some on music, etc.

Parody lyrics to the tune of "Perfidia" based on the speculation that cases of porphyria may have fueled legends of vampires and werewolves.

Lest we forget our dead.

Posted on this, the fiftieth anniversary

of the UpStairs Lounge attack,

June 24th, 1973.

a salad of various poems which are the concretized expressions of my other self's emotions.

Larry was the son of a famous opera singer and a well-known conductor, but his passion in life was to be a medical scientist. However, when the pandemic waylaid his plans to go to the Bronx High School of Science, instead he applied to LaGuardia, New York's premier public high school of the arts. Just as an intermezzo is a short musical bridge, Intermezzo brings together characters from other stories in the New York Stories series while filling in some gaps. Told from the point of view of Larry's girlfriend, Robin, he learns that sometimes the shortest path to one's goals isn't the straightest one.

‘You ever make out in the back of a police car before?’

Kerry scoffs. ‘Johnny, I’ve never been in the back of a police car before.’

‘Well, you wanna?’

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Johnny has a tendency to get in trouble, and he usually drags Kerry down with him.

or:

Be gay, do crime.

Cyberpunk 2077 & 2020 fanfiction. Kerry/Johnny.

An Oratorio about being non-judgemental and loving to all.

Sage figures out that Marc has feelings for him and has to find his way down a new path that his new discovery has forged for him.

The thread running through a family of four, the one keeping them stitched as a unit, may be thinning in places they don't realize, for reasons beyond the obvious.

Without music, Neal's life would be a mistake. Is Greg more important to him than his music?