Friday Night Drabble Party!
"The PIanist's Fingers"
Oh, wow, I totally forgot it’s Friday the 13th.
Ah, but it’s all good, especially since I’m all about the spooky and scary anyway these days. Don’t worry, this evening’s drabble is appropriately weird.
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Now, on with the 100 words of weird!
Cheers!
The Pianist’s Fingers
By
Jake Bible
The pianist’s fingers are fine and sinewy; classically trained instruments sentenced to bang away at the stained, cracked ivories of the old and broken upright. He doesn’t even bother with the broken pedals anymore.
“Play the cowboys’ mamas song!” the warlord shouts from the front of the room.
The pianist nods and transitions from the Chopin piece he’d learned in a different life to the Willie Nelson song he knows the warlord wants.
“Yeah! That one!”
The pianist sighs. He’s played the song a thousand times just this week.
But a gig is a gig, especially in this wasteland apocalypse.