Genevieve Valentine’s story, “To Set Before the King,” went up in the Interfictions Annex on Sept. 15th, launching nine weeks’ worth of original short stories leading up to the print publication of the IAF’s new anthology, Interfictions 2 (containing 19 more stories of interstitial genius).

This week, we’re pleased to bring you “Nylon Seam” by F. Brett Cox.  And this time, there’s a soundtrack!  We’ll let Brett tell you about it himself:

I used to play in a band called Argon Connection, for which I wrote a number of original songs.  The band broke up, as bands do, and I started to speculate about putting the song lyrics to a different kind of work.  After reading a short story by Michael Martone (a story whose title, alas, escapes me) where individual scenes consisted of 1-2 sentence snapshots, it occurred to me that might be a way to go.  My first effort in this direction, “The Sexual Component of Alien Abduction (Three-Headed Alien Blues),” appeared in Say… Was That a Kiss? in 2002. “Nylon Seam” is my second try.

As for the content, well, I used to announce the song as my tribute to Bettie Page fandom, and I guess that’s true for the story as well.

On the recording, that’s me playing the guitar and singing.  My apologies for the somewhat labored guitar solo.  Another reason I have a day job.

I can imagine nothing more interstitial than attempting to merge lyric and narrative, but I’m sure others can, and when they get around to writing it, I look forward to reading it.