StoryTree
you are here

The Song With No Composer

sci-fiEveryone
5 contributors · 4 paragraphs deep

She refused to play it. Instead she read the rest of the page. Below the notes, in her own handwriting, were the words: 'You sent this to yourself. You just haven't done it yet.' Mira's mouth went dry. Somewhere a clock started chiming, far more times than it should.

The chiming stopped. Mira pulled out her phone and saw the date read three years in the past, the same winter the tune first arrived. A message sat on the screen, unsent, written by her: 'Tell yourself the notes are real.' She hit send before she could stop herself, and the cold winter air swallowed her whole.

↔ version 1 of 2 of this paragraph — hover its sides to flip. The card below is what happens next.

What happens next?

0 ways forward
Vote share across the top 0 branches
No futures yet — be the one who decides what happens next.