Sad Serenity and Me

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Look what came in the mail! Sad Serenity sent me a CD of their latest album, Tiny Miracles which contains a song based on (with my permission, of course) my story, "An Empty House With Many Doors."

Sad Serenity is, that nice Mr. Google tells me, "an international prog Metal collective centered around German multi-instrumentalist Marcell Kammerer." The song they crafted around the bones of my tale is titled "Tell the Moon."

I like it quite a lot. In fact, I like the whole album quite a lot.

I once wrote a story with the extraordinary title "For I Have Lain Me Down on the Stone of Loneliness and I'll not be Back Again," based on Janis Ian's  song "Mary's Eyes." Commenting either on it or on the anthology of stories based on her songs Stars, Janis commented on what an extraordinary thing it is to see someone pick up a piece of art you made and turn it into a new and different work of art. 

She's right there. When I wrote it, "An Empty House With Many Doors" was a very private meditation of what I would do if my wife Marianne were to die. It proved to be very popular, probably because there's so much emotion packed into it, which is something I was not expecting. And now it's traveling about the world of music, far from my control. 

Safe traveling, little story-turned-song. I wish you all the best.

You can hear the song here. And if you're of a mind to, you can buy the album here. Much like science fiction writers, international Prog Metal collectives need all the support they can get.

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