The Songs of Memory: A Jukebox Story

By Dean Wesley Smith

As the owner of the Garden Lounge and the time-traveling jukebox, Stout faces a critical decision when the love of his life comes to visit him and the regulars of the Garden. Many lives hang in the balance, including his and the future of the Garden Lounge. And only a trip through the jukebox might save everything.

Dean Wesley Smith is the international bestselling author of over ninety novels and hundreds of short stories. He has sold many other stories set in the world of the jukebox and has out the first Jukebox Stories collection called Five From the Jukebox. You can find out more about his work at deanwesleysmith.com

Also, if you liked “The Songs of Memory” you might also like these other jukebox stories:
Jukebox Gifts
Black Betsy
The Ghosts of the Garden Lounge
A Golden Dream
He Could Have Coped With Dragons (Richard Cone’s story)

• Language: English
• Publisher: WMG Publishing
• Release date: Jan 21, 2011
• ISBN: 9781458164995

Dean Wesley Smith

Considered one of the most prolific writers working in modern fiction, USA TODAY bestselling writer, Dean Wesley Smith published far over a hundred novels in forty years, and hundreds of short stories across many genres. He currently produces novels in four major series, including the time travel Thunder Mountain novels set in the old west, the galaxy-spanning Seeders Universe series, the urban fantasy Ghost of a Chance series, and the superhero series staring Poker Boy. During his career he also wrote a couple dozen Star Trek novels, the only two original Men in Black novels, Spider-Man and X-Men novels, plus novels set in gaming and television worlds.

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The Songs of Memory

A Jukebox Story

Dean Wesley Smith

The Songs of Memory

Copyright © 2012 Dean Wesley Smith

Published by WMG Publishing

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The Songs of Memory

I locked the front door of the Garden Lounge with a loud click and turned up the lights slightly so that it didn’t feel like nighttime. Then I turned back to the six friends sitting on the bar stools, drinking and laughing, with their backs to me.

This was going to be very, very hard to tell them.

Outside, the July sun was beating down on the afternoon streets, sending the temperatures to almost a hundred. But inside the Garden, I kept the temperature at a cool seventy-two. But even with that, I was sweating and worried about what I was going to say.

The old jukebox that had changed so many things for all of us sat in the corner, dark as always, sort of tucked away behind a planter full of natural-looking fake plants. I seldom plugged the jukebox in and turned it on for anything but the special Christmas Eve gathering.