In DreamForge Anvil Issue 21, music becomes magic, revolution, and sometimes catastrophe across time and space. From concrete guitars echoing through Cold War Berlin to an android missionary bringing the blues to a tone-deaf planet, these stories explore what happens when melody meets mayhem. So tune up and turn the page, because in this issue, finding your voice might just change everything!

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In 1975 East Berlin, a band plays instruments made from the Wall itself—but the real question is why the Stasi informant in the crowd can't stop dancing.

A soldier who couldn't pull the trigger in an alien jungle becomes a sought-after musician—haunted by a melody only he can hear and playing an instrument no human should possess.

A photographer follows a remote tribe's unusual life cycle, until the day his own camera stops working and the evening songs begin to make sense.

An apprentice minstrel has survived three years of disasters following his master across plague-torn Europe— but in Naples, he discovers the catastrophes had a purpose and his master has a plan.

A story about an android minstrel missionary sent to save a tone-deaf world. What could possibly go wrong?

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