Section One – Paper Machetes
And I stand there, staring at her as if it takes a very long time for her words to fall within earshot. As if they are traveling over a vast abyss and I have to parse their meaning from fragments of echo.
Here, Sophie would pause quite a long time for dramatic effect, a gaping, puzzled, innocent look on her face, turning within the room to each member of the audience, attempting to impart a small measure of her confusion at my open expression and the stuttering pause in our conversation.
And finally, she would shrug, returning to the role of herself, but not before the gift of a glance to me, wherever I was in the room, a glance which held the tiniest nested caress.
She shrugs, shaking off the whole idea of a conversation, “But right now I’m thinking about dinner. Some sort of dinner.”
She edges toward the obstacle that is me, a pantomime of shouldering to a crowded bar, muttering now to herself, “Squash maybe, but what kind?”
At which point the gathered crowd, taking my role, would intone in unison, “I like Spaghetti Squash!”
She laughs. And I laugh. She extends her hand to me, wherever I am, swallowed by the sofa or gangly on a ladder-back chair: “My name’s Sophie.”
Taking her hand, “Hi, I’m Doug.”
Calie G (Electrogaze Remix) by Paper Machetes
This is an exclusive remix made specifically for the Cloud Diary Music Project.
The original version of the song can be found on our EP Ghosts.
Music and lyrics by Paper Machetes.
Bio: Four typically atypical transplanted Greensboro-ians making noise with nods to 90s alternative rock right though to modern day indie rock. Established 2017.
Brandon Meyers-Vocals/Guitar
Karen Stratman-Guitar
Jeremy Mockensturm-Bass
Daniel Siano-Drums
Contact:
papermachetesgso@gmail.com
The Cloud Diary Music Project
We sent musicians a synopsis of Cloud Diary and a randomly chosen scene from among 12 scattered throughout the novel and asked them to respond to the scene, musically or aurally. The piece could be of any genre and any duration. It could be music already recorded, adapted, or written specifically for the scene. Find more information here.
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