What Mother always told us - I enjoyed this very short story, nothing really about the writing style but more that I can relate to it. The author really seems to put emphasis on the words "Us" and "Brothers"  possibly to hammer into such a short story the depth of the brothers relationship.

The Fifth Story - This... compilation?.. of stories is interesting. I enjoy ow the author took a very simple story and by telling the story changing the emphasis and in turn having multiple stories. I do, owever, find it strange to do such an indepth story on cockroaches.Just kind of a weird topic.

Sheet music

The notes flow like a river, rushing down to meet the falls. Fingers ache but yet no signal can reach the brain, numbed by melody. Sweat, skin, metal and cedar working as a team to combat the forces. Repeated until politely interrupted by the calming chorus, but it didn't seem to matter. Repeat. Repeat. A cloud hovers over chords and rains down refrain washing away the strums previous, cleansing mind and soul. But he couldn't come up with an equal beauty, no end to a half finished thought.