Conversation Between A Composer And Their Psychologist
“I’ve always heard it.”
“And you coped by writing?”
“Yeah.”
“Did writing help?”
“Yeah, when I write it down the music cadenzas. And I get to perform it and make a decent living too.”
“What do you mean by cadenzas?”
“It’s Latin for stop. Then diminuendo until a new tune starts up in allegro. And I write that down too.”
The psychologist wrote: persistent auditory hallucinations & delusions of grandeur. There might be a book deal in this; a construction worker who believes himself a composer. Hottest thing in ClinPsych since the man who mistook his wife for a hat.
From Guest Contributor Harman Burgess
Harman’s short fiction has previously been published in CafeLit and Friday Flash Fiction, as well as in the upcoming September edition of Scarlet Leaf Review.
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