I've always liked the idea of a novel soundtrack, but I never managed to put one together, and now I think it would end up interfering, sad as that makes me. A friend used to make mix tapes for every story he wrote, and some of them were really cool, and even cooler after I'd read the stories they related to. Your novel soundtracks sound wonderful, from what you've said over in the Proxy Circle in the past. How fascinating that for you music helps with novels but silence is better for short stories!