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The Piano Tuner of the Empty Ballroom

Every Thursday, Isolde tunes a grand piano in a ballroom no one uses. Then one afternoon, someone answers her final chord.

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The Piano Tuner Who Listened for Ghosts

The Piano Tuner Who Listened for Ghosts

An aging piano tuner is called to a shuttered concert hall where the instrument insists on playing a song no one taught it. What he finds…

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The Diver Who Charted Lost Songs

The Diver Who Charted Lost Songs

When a freediver hears music threading up from the seafloor, she begins mapping a sound no instrument has made in a hundred years.

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The Cellist on the Northbound Train

The Cellist on the Northbound Train

When a cellist boards the last northbound train of the season, a tired conductor discovers that some passengers are only ever traveling…

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The Piano Tuner Who Heard the River

The Piano Tuner Who Heard the River

When a piano tuner is summoned to a flooded valley town, she finds an instrument that refuses to forget the water. What it remembers will…

6 min read