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Jody Lynn Nye - Theme Music Man




Theme Music Men
Jody Lynn Nye


Simple logistics would suggest that not every hero gets
to move mountains, run at hyper-speeds, or deflect
bullets from a chiseled chin. Someone has to provide
support services to make heroes look heroic.



The loan officer gazed with open disapproval at the man on the
other side of his opulent walnut desk.
"Now, as for your employment?"
"I have two jobs, really," Irwin Katzenbaum said, shifting
uncomfortably. "I work for Polyphonic Studios in the audio
recording department. I'm a senior technician, I've been there for
eight years."
"Good, good," Mr. Gruber said. "And salary?" Katzenbaum told
him. "… All right… You say you have another job as well?"
"Yeah, but it's not very income-producing most of the time,"
Katzenbaum said.
"We need it for the application," the loan officer said, silting back
with the smug expression that said he had all the time in the world,
Katzenbaum had already pegged him as one of those bureaucrats

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who enjoyed wielding their petty power against people who couldn't
defend themselves.
Katzenbaum muttered, almost under his breath, "I'm Theme Music
Man."
The banker leaned forward, "Say again?"
Irwin gave up. "I'm Theme Music Man," he repeated more clearly.
"Really?" Gruber asked, with real interest. "Well!… Well, we get a
lot of people in here claiming to be petty superheroes. Would you
mind demonstrating your talent? Um… make up a theme for me."
Irwin gulped. He knew what the music would sound like for this
odious man: the saccharine violins that they always played in the
silent films when the evil banker foreclosed on the house and flung
the family out into the snow to freeze. Unwittingly, the music rose
about him. It set his teeth on edge, even as it made him want to cry.
Other people in the bank turned, to stare at them. Katzenbaum