short fictions

About the artist

Short Fictions have often tried to imagine a better world. Their sophomore LP, Fates Worse Than Death, mythologized their Pittsburgh hometown as a place of great evil and grand inspiration. Doomsday scenarios, shot through with a dash of hope, influenced a set of songs that dipped between neighborhood serenity and desperate calls for community. Every Moment of Every Day answers their own anguish by finding moments of growth amid unrivaled chaos. The

Top songs

  1. Property of Pigeons
  2. Living in Places Like These Can Be Bad for Your Health (Can't Live Here Anymore) [Crafted Sounds Version]
  3. You Will Never Be the Best at Anything You Try (Surely Not)
  4. Don't Start a Band
  5. Really Like You
  6. Wasting
  7. Fates Worse Than Death, Pt. II: Anthropocene
  8. Cities Under Water
  9. Living in Places Like These Can Be Bad for Your Health (Can’t Live Here Anymore)
  10. against all this, Youth (Song for Matthew)
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  1. Fates Worse Than Death, Pt. I: I Don't Want to Wait out the Apocalypse with Anyone but You
  2. Nothingness Lies Coiled at the Heart of Being (It’s Such a Good Feeling)
  3. Heather
  4. Forever Endeavor
  5. Reno Nevada, January 2020
  6. Fates Worse Than Death, Pt. II: Anthroposcene
  7. I'm Going to Kill Myself with a Gun
  8. I’m Proud to Know You, You Are Special (Goodbye, Ryan)
  9. I'm Not Depressed
  10. Self Betterment in a Time of Loneliness
  11. Oblivion Will Own Me and Death Alone Will Love Me
  12. The Great Unwashed
  13. Living In Places Like These Can Be Bad For Your Health
  14. To Leave Forever or Die Alone in South Oakland
  15. I Cannot Possibly Perceive the Least Kinship Now Between the Dead Girl and Myself Which Makes Most of My Days Inevitably Dreary
  16. Crushed Cigarettes (A Herculean Effort for Naught)
  17. Nothingness Lies Coiled at the Heart of Being (It's Such a Good Feeling)
  18. To Loved Ones Lost in Pursuit of Foolish Passions
  19. Anymore
  20. Don’t Pinch Me I’m Dreaming
  21. Ellen (a Song About a Book)
  22. Max
  23. (Don't Let Me) Love You
  24. I Hate Everything in My Life and I Never Won't
  25. My Somber Vacation
  26. The Buick Is a Deathrap
  27. Fates Worse Than Death, Pt I: I Don't Want to Wait out the Apocalypse with Anyone but You
  28. I'm Proud to Know You, You Are Special (Goodbye, Ryan)
  29. Mercury
  30. Abject of Your Affection
  31. Christmas on a Dying Planet
  32. year of the boar
  33. The Disappeared
  34. This Is the Day
  35. Teeth Falling Out Nightmares
  36. The Heart Never Stops Beating
  37. In an Airplane Crash at the Peak of Mount Kilimanjaro
  38. Cities Under Water (Single Version)
  39. Envy the Dead
  40. Fates Worse Than Death Pt II: Anthropocene
  41. Fates Worse Than Death Pt I: I Don't Want to Wait Out the Apocalypse with Anyone but You
  42. K.A.C
  43. Cities Under Water - Audiotree Live Version
  44. Nothingness Lies Coiled at the Heart of Being - Audiotree Live Version
  45. To Loved Ones Lost in Pursuit of Foolish
  46. Living in Places Like These Can Be Bad for Your Health - Audiotree Live Version
  47. Really Like You - Audiotree Live Version
  48. Anymore (In Praise of Ann Elizabeth)
  49. Property of Pigeons - Audiotree Live Version
  50. Against All This, Youth - Audiotree Live Version
  51. Pittsburgh (interlude)
  52. the buick is a deathtrap
  53. Oh Darling
  54. Living In Places Like These Can Be Bad For Your Health (Can't Live Here Anymore)
  55. Abject of you Affection
  56. I Hate Everything in My Life, and I Never Won't
  57. In an Airplane Crash Over Mount Killamonjaro
  58. Don’t Start a Band
  59. Don't Pinch Me I'm Dreaming
  60. Prologue: Living in Places Like These Can Be Bad for Your Health (Can’t Live Here Anymore)
  61. Pittsburgh - interlude
  62. "Against All This Youth" (A Song for Matthew)
  63. Living in Places Like These Can Be Bad for Your Health (Can’t Live Here Anymore)
  64. Property of Pigeons.
  65. Fates Worse Than Death, Pt. I: I Don’t Want to Wait Out the Apocalypse With Anyone but You
  66. (Don’t Let Me) Love You
  67. Nothingness Lies Coiled At The Heart Of Being
  68. Nothingness Lies Coiled at the Heart of Being (It’s Such a Good Feeling)
  69. This is the Day (The The)
  70. I’m Going to Kill Myself with a Gun
  71. Im Proud to Know You, You Are Special (Goodbye, Ryan)
  72. I’m Not Depressed
  73. Nothingness Lies Coiled at the Heart of Being (Audiotree Live Version)
  74. I’m Proud To Know You, You Are Special
  75. Property of Pigeons (Audiotree Live Version)
  76. Cities Under Water (Audiotree Live Version)
  77. To Leave Forever or Die Alone in South Oakland, Pittsburgh
  78. K.A.C.
  79. Short Fictions - Oh Darling
  80. Really Like You (Audiotree Live Version)
  81. Reno Nevada January 2020
  82. Against All This, Youth (Audiotree Live Version)
  83. Living in Places Like These Can Be Bad for Your Health (Audiotree Live Version)
  84. Cities Under Water (Audiotree Live)
  85. Abject of Your Afection
  86. Reno, Nevada, January 2020
  87. Kwarter Zip - McKee's...Rocks!
  88. Be Safe - A Weapon
  89. Happy Birthday Brett! Pt. 1
  90. Interlude

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