Stories via song title

Stories via song title2020-10-18T20:03:21+11:00
810, 2014

Shadowplay by Joy Division

Dips O’Donnell Teenage bedroom, Montmorency, early 1980s. The song powered on. It touched everything in the room. Even Clint shifted his stance.

2509, 2014

She Bop by Cyndi Lauper. Story by Fiona Price

Fiona Price Traffic lights, Glen Waverley, 1984 No-one does scorn like a teenage girl. At fourteen, Swagata deployed hers regularly, with rolling eyes and tossing black plait.

505, 2015

Sheep May Safely Graze by JS Bach. Story by Clare Boyd-Macrae

Clare Boyd-Macrae Brunswick, Melbourne, April 2015 Bach, more than any other composer I know, makes me feel that everything will come out right in the end. Other composers were tormented souls; Bach seems to be a benign and contented family man with his 20 children, his round face and avuncular wig.

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