Rock Plaza Central - "Anthem for the Already Defeated" (Are We Not Horses)

Catchy gypsy tune, featured in "the Battery" $6k zombie film.

Have listened to other songs, but none of them come even close. Got the impression it's Christian-inspired, in a sadly-boring way.

This song rocks, though.

Lucy Clifford - "The New Mother" (1882?)

Wonderful folk-ish fairy tale, inspiration to Neil Gaiman for his "Coraline" though very different, about two children who desperately want to be naughty to see a small man and woman dance.

What this, like other good fairy tales, does so well is take a concept "be good, or else", and use that, or rather its inverse, as an important trope throughout the story.

A.C. Wise - "Where Dead Men Go To Dream"

magic story (a girl with a skin of mirrors, a woman selling dreams, loss) with an interesting enough premise, yet it never really grabbed me. Can't say what was lacking.

Helen Marshall - "The Mouth, Open"

Interesting short about an (oversized) American boy visiting an East European culture. Magic realism.

Nice character description.