Stories tagged “affection”

• Oliver

  Oliver looks like your typical grand: black case, 52 white keys and 36 black keys, the lifted top contoured to the classic piano shape. But, really, what piano is typical? To me, Oliver is Oliver because of the lower register; it’s very strong, p...

  • Author: g²LaPianistaIrlandesa
  • Posted almost 3 years ago.

• A sense of wonder.

  I feel the beating of my heart. More like racing, really. I feel the clamping around my ribs and back. Not uncomfortable at all, actually very snug and supportive. A large gum tree ramshackles its way past my line of vision. Next I see an esteemed old ...

  • Author: scratch'n'scrawl
  • Posted over 2 years ago.
  • 5 out of 5

• Freddie

  Even though Oliver’s a piano, like all partners he’s with a friend or two of mine. His most constant companion is my metrenome, Freddie. My friendship with Freddie was pretty rocky. Perhaps it was because my piano teacher forced us together...

  • Author: g²LaPianistaIrlandesa
  • Posted over 2 years ago.
  • 4 out of 5

• Goodbye

  Condescension, No affection Showed between we two; This made it far too easy To walk away from you. I sensed the end— Doomed to “just friends” But did nothing to help; You thought I was changing, But I’m coming out of my shell. ...

  • Author: Elisabeth L. Davis(LoA)
  • Posted over 2 years ago.
  • 5 out of 5

• Glory and Envy

  It was tedious work, being a research assistant. Long nights spent cleaning up the master’s mistakes, weekends missed that beckoned with thoughts of women and booze in equal quantities. He had no life to speak of other than his work; he was total...

  • Author: The Ghost in the Machine LoA
  • Posted 4 months ago.
  • 3 out of 5