A story about Harry Dresden. The time period is between Selling Skin and Change."Gardner Dozois has a ton of awards for his anthologies, which he is good at, and I joined at his invitation to contribute to the anthology that he and George R.R. Martin continued to work on , called Star-crossed Lovers. Despite my enthusiasm, finding a starting point for the Dresden story was a little difficult for me, since Harry Dresden could have been one of the top three star-crossed lovers in the entire modern fantasy genre. How could I shoehorn him in? in a story like this? Answer: Putting him in the thick of things next to Murphy as seemingly random love spells spread madness through the city. After that, all I had to do was use his usual lucky streak and giggle wildly while typing it all out. The title of the anthology changed to "Songs of Love and Death" after I wrote the story, which is probably for the best. Otherwise, I might have found a way to have a metalhead fight while staying within the boundaries of this."