My story, “Hide the Honey,” was inspired by my first experience drinking caffeine when I was a kid. It was such a giddy high, and the song absolutely captures the bubbly, fizzy nature of it.
My kid had to write a research essay a few years ago with the title “Jellyfish for Dinner,” so I promised to work on a short story by the same name while he worked on the essay… anyway, this means there’s now a song by that title too.
We were playing Catan with friends, arguing about trading sheep, and the line, “but it COULD have been 1 sheep with 15 other sheep!” happened. Which led to a flash fiction. Which led to a delightfully silly song.
The friend we were playing Catan with started turning “One Sheep” into an illustrated children’s book… but it never got finished. And oh wow would that friend most definitely hate how I love AI, but then our friendship fell apart over art vs. capitalism years ago.
Someone who should have known better told me that I’m not as special as I think I am… so I wrote “Sarah Flowermane and the Unicorn” as a place to put that feeling. And it converted really beautifully into a song about not needing the approval you seek.
Did you ever wish for a song with the moral that the best comfort comes from eating dragonflies? Well, fortunately, I turned my story, “An Otter’s Soul,” into a song, and it’s exactly that!
I’d been meaning to write a story about a rabbit befriending a carnivorous plant for many years before it actually happened, and the result, “Frond Farewell,” turned into such an incredibly beautiful song about unlikely friendships.
My story, “The Best Puppy Ever,” is from the point of view of a Bernese mountain dog who’s unknowingly a pregnancy surrogate for her owners. I bet there aren’t a lot of other songs out there with that premise…
So, I took the first chapter of Pride & Prejudice and converted it into a parody about a cat and dog arguing over a cardboard box… and then I converted that into a song… you know, just normal things to do.
Oh geez, I almost forgot to include the title — it’s called “Excerpt from Purride and Purrejudice,” because of course it is.
My husband made a joke about a place looking like Treegadoon… and so, of course, I had to spend several months writing a novella about an otter swept up into a disappearing-reappearing squirrel city, which you can now listen to in song form!
I had to do a fair bit of tweaking and reworking of the lyrics and prompt for the song version of “The Muddy Unicorn.” I wanted more background vocals than Suno kept giving me, but in the end, it turned out really pretty.