Annotated Setlist of the Mikaela Cole Jazz Quintet
ShortStory 6,764 words Recommended by 4 award/anthology sources
A crew member describes the songs he and his friends made when they put together a band centuries from Earth and centuries from their destination.
Content warnings 2
deathdeath-of-a-loved-one
Quasar links out; the story lives on Clarkesworld, where the author gets the click.