Art & Music Scene Stories

Studios, galleries, concerts, and festivals. Paint-stained studios, backstage passes, and muses who refuse to sit still.

Art & Music Scene Stories

The Cabin Fever by double down 99 — An enigmatic artist opens her father's lake house to a chosen pair of guests, ostensibly for a creative retreat — but every brushstroke is laid down with a muc…
Sway and Sweat by Marcus Dark — Newly named principal ballerina Elara has spent years walling off the vulnerability her role demands. When the theater's quiet security chief intervenes agains…
Artistic Expression by Elena Rivers — When producer David walks in on actress Candy and director Ralph's intimate creative process, the lines between performance and desire dissolve in a private sc…
Hot Desert Tune — Armistice Day by Marcus Steele — Burned out frontman Andrei walks offstage mid-set and into the open desert, where a quiet woman named Rosie pulls him out of the dark. For the first time since…
Stagecraft by Marcus Steele — Alex runs the lights for Tristan's star-making performance — invisible, indispensable, and entirely unnoticed. Until Tristan's sister Sophie steps out of the w…
Horizon by Emma Rosewood — Adrian preserves what other people create — until painter Julian Voss walks into his restoration studio with a torn masterpiece and a steady, whiskey-coloured…
A Picture Paints a Thousand Words by Sophia Moon — Reese's photography is technically perfect — and emotionally a lie. In the after-hours red glow of the gallery darkroom, her director Darwin sets out to develo…