Sweet stories

Flight lost and regained
Man and bug, creative duo.
Artist's soul, educator's heart.
Fur? No. Style? Oh, yes.
An existence with meaning
Choreographed romance
Can't rhinos just knock?
Finishing last and winning.
The blind learn to see.
Love and a typewriter
Suppressed ​Soviet history.
Salvation in similarity
Music as sibling unifier 
Different breed, different style
Biography and storytelling
Sleep is important, too
Kindness among rodents
Inspiration explained
Little-known music history
True story, brilliant bear

ABOUT
TALKS
WITH MUSIC

Talks With Music is a music/microstory project with Henning Ohlenbusch, who will be embarrassed at being called a fixture of the Pioneer Valley music community.

The Pioneer Valley is the piece of earth that features The University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Amherst College, Smith College, Mount Holyoke College, and Hampshire College, along with many nice little burgs in which many nice people, big and little, live.

Derek writes the words and reads them. Henning writes the music and plays it.

Click on any of the audio files to the right or left of these words to check out these endeavors. 

Check out Henning's music by clicking here.

It is possible to buy these works on Amazon and iTunes. Just click here for more about that. It will take you to an information page of a now mostly unused website. Still, the website has that information, so that counts for something. 

In truth, it's possible to just listen to them here, but buying them give the creators some shekels. This often results in the purchaser feeling all warm and fuzzy and patron of the artsish.

Check out Derek Leif's website by clicking...oh, wait. This is it. Never mind.

ODD Stories

Gentrification and history.
World conquest and the blues.
An unusual school field trip.
A game of chance
A band's unusual savior
A horrifying conclusion
Magical art
(Story inspired by Julian Parker Burns.
Visit his website by clicking here!)
A true, horrifying life cycle.
Digital love and obsession
The beauty in the unseen
 A gift that keeps giving
​A misunderstood decorator.