A Fallen Muse by Kamilla Reid EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Author: Kamilla Reid
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It wasn’t the car that triggered Kit, though it was clearly on its last legs,
having been gouged in the door yet again. Kit had simply pasted another
giant bandage decal across the wound and patted the old hatchback’s hood.
“It’s alright, Dentley,” she’d said. “You’re my hero.”
These same words had soothed the long-suffering radiator, the stereo,
and four balding tires. Dentley was on shaky ground, certainly, but Dentley
was not what had sent Kit’s hands into a sudden tremble.
God knows, it should have been the Styrofoam cacti pummeling her
from the back seat, and the old dusty ropes and lanterns clogging her view.
But these were routine. She was a theatre director. Transporting props was
par for the course. The giant wagon wheel edging precariously out of the
trunk was no exception.
Truth be told, it was her daughter’s voice that iced Kit’s blood,
moreover the song her daughter, Sunni, had cracked open.
For the record, Kit loved her daughter inexhaustibly. From freckled
brow to knee scar to size eight shoe, no flaw was to be found. And this had
been effortlessly sustained, even into Sunni’s teenage-hood, when musical
clashes usually bore out the first of many war wounds.
By some rarity of the universe, mother and daughter’s musical tastes
were as attuned as their ginger tresses. Between them there thrived a
reckoning of passion: Broadway. Oh yes. Every overture, reprise, and
interlude. Every patter, ballad, chorus, and kick line. All came welcome. All
came treasured.
With one exception. One song.
The very song that Sunni now repeated with great gusto, over and over
and over again. The one song that raised bile to Kit’s throat.
“They say beyoooond the stars…be-yond…Beeeee-yooooond…”
Beyond the Stars was from the musical Rocket Robbin’, a space opera
that had swept the Tony Awards decades earlier and maintained cult status
ever since. Kit guessed she wasn’t alone in her loathing of it. There had to
be others – musicians unimpressed with the soaring key changes, directors
bored of its overuse in auditions – but surely, she was the only one who
hyperventilated when it snuck up on her like this.
At a red light, her limit was met. She reached past a cow skull and
pulled out her daughter’s ear buds. “Are you trying to annoy me?”
Sunni blinked at her mother. “What’re you…what?”
“Of all the songs, you pick that one.” Kit said.
“I’m not singing it. I’m using it to practice an octave interval.”
“Well use a different one.”
“I don’t know a different one.”
Kit cleared her throat. “Somewhere over the rainbow. When you wish
upon a star.” Both perfect octaves. And one more for good measure, this
one a hum without lyrics.
“What is that?” Sunni scoffed.
“Wha’dy’mean? It’s the Sub Buskers theme song.”
“Oh right. How could I forget the Sub Busters—”
“Buskers.”
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