Listlessness In Early Automated Composition Devices

Time-travelling ex-postman Harley Byrne's ongoing mission is to capture and make available for download “all the world’s music, ever.” In this newly rediscovered chapter from his lost memoirs, Byrne describes in full his mission to Manchester, 1952, to record the secret computer music of Alan Turing - war hero, mathematician, inventor of hands-free umbrella.Matilda thought she had gotten away with breaking the rules. But when her name appears in blood on a rock, her village elders send her out as the monthly sacrifice. Armed with a steak knife and a flash light, Matilda's not sure she's ready to die. Supposedly the scarecrows will eat her, but she's pretty certain the mayor has something to do with it. Scaring Fields is a stand-alone short story of approximately 4,900 words.