StoryVerse〔23〕

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As you pencil in the devil's tritone on the treble clef, your fingers stiffen. The metronome freezes mid-swing and the room and everything in it turns to stone. Including you. Hard luck.

Try again.

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Jon T writes Ferns of Columbo. An ongoing collection of short speculative fiction, exploring the unusual, surreal and existential.