The Day Music Died

By Katharina Gerlach

When Dan's mother, a gifted piano player, dies, his father puts away his cello for good and drowns his sorrow in alcohol. Now, Dan wants to join the local school band, but his choice draws the attention of those who have been hunting him since his birth. Will the stranger he meets at a rave be able to help him?

This is a short story of roughly 20 pages.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Independent Bookworm
• Release date: Sep 6, 2014
• ISBN: 9781386664383

Katharina Gerlach

Katharina Gerlach was born in Germany in 1968. She and her three younger brothers grew up in the middle of a forest in the heart of the Luneburgian Heather. After romping through the forest with imagination as her guide, the tomboy learned to read and disappeared into magical adventures, past times, or eerie fairytale woods. She didn’t stop at reading. During her training as a landscape gardener, she wrote her first novel, a manuscript full of a beginner’s mistakes. Fortunately, she found books on Creative Writing and soon her stories improved. For a while, reality interfered with her writing but after finishing a degree in forestry and a PhD in Science she returned to her vocation. She likes to write Fantasy, Science Fiction and Historical Novels for all age groups. At present, she is writing at her next project in a small house near Hildesheim, Germany, where she lives with her husband, her children and her dog.

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The day Music Died

A Fantasy Short Story

Katharina Gerlach

When Dan's mother, a gifted piano player, dies, his father puts away his cello for good and drowns his sorrow in alcohol. Now, Dan wants to join the local school band, but his choice draws the attention of those who have been hunting him since his birth. Will the stranger he meets at a rave be able to help him?

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The Day Music Died

Dan drummed on his knee with his fingers accompanying the snippets of muzak that occasionally rose over the din in the underground. Beside him, a young mother tried to soothe her baby while an elderly woman stared at him with a frown. As if he'd give her his hard-won place. Let her claim it when his stop came. He stared