Word Count: 100 words of text, exactly
Genre: Fantasy-Reality Fiction
Pianissimo, Pianissimo!
©June 18th, 2016
By Vijaya Sundaram
After Freddy Zhang came home from his after-school tutoring class, track team, or Robotics Club (he was forced to attend these), his mother made him practise piano first – no snacks until he was done.
Today, Freddy played scales, then stopped abruptly. He hated the piano, viscerally.
“What’s going on?” his mother shouted out.
Silently, he pressed the panels in front of him. They gave way.
“Freddy?” she called out again.
A clockwork key turned on his back. The piano keys moved silently.
Two hands reached out inside from the panels, and grabbed his.
Unresisting, he let himself be pulled in.
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