I had to be really careful when turning “My Magic, My Spell” into a song, because I wanted to be able to enjoy listening to it… but it’s also, at its heart, about a traumatic moment. My first few tries… were too raw. But the final version landed beautifully.
My story, “Anger is a Porcupine, Sadness is a Fish,” caused such a kerfuffle in my writing group with people breaking the foundational rule that we don’t assume fiction is about the author that I’m still not really over it. Anyway, it makes a powerful song.
Okay, so, “Returning the Lyre,” is obviously my gender-flipped take on Orpheus and Eurydice, but it’s also about how horribly brutal the tenure process is, even on people one step removed from it. And now it’s a delightfully catchy song!
“The Fish Kite” is a sequel story to “Forget Me Not,” so I used the same musical persona in Suno to make the songs sound like they’re sung by the same character. Worked out beautifully. Once again, very jazzy and catchy.
My story, “Memory Sprites,” is about trying to return to the site of childhood magic later in life, and I think the song turned out fairly magical.
My story, “Crystal and Rainbow” from THE OPPOSITE OF MEMORY, was always more of an experimental, prose poem, mood piece than a full story, so it was very suited to becoming a song.
Okay, okay, so “Necessary as a Rose” is probably my favorite song I’ve made so far. It absolutely captures the unhinged space madness quality I was going for with the story… but while being so damned catchy. Seriously, I just love this song so much.
My story, “Flowers Want to Be Free,” was a short little thing I dashed off on my birthday a few years back, and I think it turned into a nice song.