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I walk into a music store in a strip mall. It's beige stucco and red light-up letters on the sign. The only letter i can see is "P." Inside, it looks like any other music store. Gray walls with long security mirrors lining the top perimeter. Guitars are hanging. Symbols and high hats. I see the owner. He's a big muscley bald guy in a tight hunter-orange shirt. He kind of looks like Joe Rogan. His shirt has a black brand name on the sleeve. It looks like the Zildjian logo but I can't make it out. We're in between the racks and he walks up to me.

"Can I help you find anything," he says.

"I'm not sure," I say, "I used to play the cello back in the day."

"Have you checked our our ochestrals? There over here." I follow him over.

There's violins, cellos, basses, a harding fiddle, all sorts. But I see a group of instruments off to the side on the wall that are a weird color. Kind of faded peach colored. For some reason, I know they'll be soft to the touch like a leather shoe or a leather jacket. I wonder how they sound so I walk up to touch them. The owner grabs my wrist, "Don't touch. They're very rare, very expensive." I see a price tag next to the bass that says $25,000.

The owner walks away and I can't help it. I have to know how it sounds. I get real close to the strings and pluck the bass's D-string. It flops around, smacking the fingerboard, like it's loose. But the bass breathes in. That's when I notice the strings aren't strings, they're white. They're sinews. The bass has arms with hands. I look at the other instruments. They're all made from human parts. I see half a face on the violin. The cello has a rib cage. The viola has sweat beads on it.

I look around. There were guitars made from stitched together skin. A high-hat which had a spine for a pedestal and foot for a pedal. Drumsticks made of bone. A drumhead with a tattoo of a deer stretched and distorted on it. While they're being played by the other patrons, I could hear the instruments breathing and screaming. One man strummed an electric guitar and it wasn't the chord that came out, but a man screaming.

I felt like I had to help them. I had to save them. I had to play the instruments to keep them alive. The owner was about to leave, so I stopped him. "I want the instruments. I want all of them."

"How are you gonna pay for them," he said.

"I don't know," I say, "Do you guys negotiate? Maybe we can come down a bit by buying all of them," I said.

He laughs, "Ha! No," he says and walks out the door with the bell jingling.

Then I woke up.

They did it for Twilight Zone, Outer Limits, and even Tales from the Crypt. I think it would be cool. The closest thing I've found, other than those three is an old one called Nightfall from the 1980s. I think BM played for "the theater of the mind" would be awesome and I'm sure you could do a lot of different things that visual mediums might not be able to allow.