“Forget Me Not” is a song inspired by the first story I ever sold (of the same name) which is about a man addicted to a memory drug. I love how jazzy and catchy it turned out.
My short story, “The Screen Savior,” really always wanted to be an animated short video… well, I guess, now I have a song ready for when I get to figuring out making videos. It has a lovely early 70s kinda vibe.
“The Most Complicated Avatar” is a story I wrote because it was a cool idea. I didn’t realize how much I actually related to the central child character with her fantastical armor until I heard it in song form though… music reaches deeper sometimes.
I’m really loving how I can fit whole stories and sci-fi ideas into songs. There’s a whole complex arc going on in my story, “A Second Enchanted Evening,” and the song managed to really capture the heart and basically the whole of it in music.
When I wrote “Viewers Like You,” I thought the premise was downright silly… I never expected it to become my most prescient story, and the whole layers of irony involved in using Claude and Suno to turn it into a song were absolutely mind-spinning…
“We Can Remember It For You Retail” is the story that originally got me into SFWA. I was really amazed that I was able to get most of its plot and twists to fit in a song, because it’s a complex little story. So, I’m really happy with how this turned out.
My story, “The Opposite of Suicide,” may try overly hard to be clever about infinities and was pretty clearly inspired by the amazing Star Trek: Voyager episode “Death Wish” where a Q wants to die… but it turned into a pretty catchy, cool-sounding song.
The song for “Small Smooth Pebble” turned out really beautiful and pretty hilarious. Also, I realized while reading Douglas Adams’ Mostly Harmless out loud to my kid this spring that the story is really just an ultra-condensed version of it.
I wrote “On the Eve of the Apocalypse” after the 2016 election to keep myself from contacting my dad. It makes for a pretty intense sci-fi metal song.