These aren't the stories your mother told you.

No, these are the other stories.

If you're finding yourself going a little crazy in your household,

then why not go a little crazy

with some friends over in the Hawk and Cleaver Facebook Movie Club? Last Saturday, we all watched

the movie tremors together and we're planning on watching more movies together in the coming

weeks, including this coming Saturday. If you're interested, then go to Facebook.com

forward slash groups forward slash hawk and cle, and keep Saturday clear on your calendar.

Today's episode is Nocturne in Spirit, written by Keziah Kynaston Mitchell and narrated by Eric Ventura.

It was midnight on a Tuesday, and the attic bloomed with music. Notes piled on each other

in glittering spirals as Delma's fingers danced over the violin's neck. The swell of a major

scale melted into the oblique sadness of a minor. Then a melody broke out between

them, and she slid from practice drills into the lilting rhythm of a favorite sonata.

The room was lit by a single lamp on the table, angled toward the music stand, though Delma

rarely consulted the pages.

She didn't see as well as she once had, though she would have never admitted it.

Her reading glasses lay on the table ignored. In the corner, an old record player crackled,

as it spun a well-worn orchestral album at full volume.

It was a familiar selection of pieces.

Back in the day, the critics had called them some of Delma's finest work with the Philharmonic.

And she had forgotten nothing.

She played along with the album, chasing every peak and valley of the music with ease.

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