Sometimes I write fictional short stories that are not about my own bizarre life choices. And sometimes, I manage to trick real-life publishers into buying them.

Parenting in the Key of B-Flat (Opus 22: A Rhapsody of Short Fiction)

• The daughter of a fanatical piano teacher finds herself in a fight to the death with a sentient piano after trying to quit her lessons.

The Marvellous Mr. Marble (Jenny Magazine)

• A middle-aged man has an existential crisis on the eve of his 25th high school reunion, and makes a plan to steal the Mona Lisa in order to impress his old classmates.