“Memories of Life” appears in the Summer 2009 issue of Burst Magazine, a publication specically designed for mobile phones (and including only pieces of 700 words or fewer). Even though iPhones and the like can handle normal web pages, there is something to be said for a magazine that knows what it does and who it’s for—subway commuters and the short-attention-spanned alike.

I wrote an even shorter first draft of this very short piece while listening to Nobuo Uematsu’s signature track “Melodies of Life” from the piano-arranged soundtrack to Final Fantasy 9, of all things. Inspiration is everywhere.