The Piano Time Rag

Sadie Louise restores wooden furniture, returning it to its former glory. With just a touch, she finds the strength flowing along the grain or where a joint will shatter with the right pressure.She also frees the spirits she discovers in the wood, trapped there by accident or design.The spirit Sadie finds in an old player piano is unlike any other.Maybe not all spirits should be freed. Leah Cutter writes page-turning, wildly imaginative fiction set in exotic locations, such as a magical New Orleans, the ancient Orient, rural Kentucky, Seattle, Minneapolis, and many others.She writes fantasy, science fiction, mystery, literary, and horror fiction. Her short fiction has been published in magazines like "Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine" and "Talebones", anthologies like Fiction River, and on the web. Her long fiction has been published both by New York publishers as well as small presses.Read more books by Leah Cutter at www.KnottedRoadPress.com.Follow her blog at www.LeahCutter.com.