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Short Story: The Curtain Called And Said Pull The Other One

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Simon Sweetman
Oct 19, 2022
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I had a job as a page-turner for the orchestra. There was only one real problem with this otherwise perfect gig: I couldn’t read music. Lucky thing for me though, I’ve always been able to read a room. And that’s what got me through the audition. Besides, everyone knows the music is written with big pauses, you just wait for a bit and when the violins le…

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