A jukebox in the Garden Lounge does more than make you remember the time of the song. It actually takes you to that time. The first story in the series, “The Jukebox Man,” appeared in 1987 in a sister magazine to The Twilight Zone Magazine. The quotation is from 1994’s “Jukebox Gifts.”
—Michael Main
I had carefully typed onto labels the names of over sixty Christmas songs, then taped them next to the red buttons. Somewhere in this jukebox, I hoped there would be a special song for each man. A song that would trigger a memory and a ride into the past. My Christmas present to each of them. 

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  1. Jukebox by Dean Wesley Smith, in various venues (Fall 1987 to January 2013).
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    • Short Story 1.The Jukebox Man by Dean Wesley Smith, in Night Cry, Fall 1987 .
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    • Short Story 2.The Jukebox Gifts by Dean Wesley Smith, Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, January 1994.
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    • Short Story 3.A Bubble for a Minute by Dean Wesley Smith, in By Any Other Fame, edited by Martin H. Greenberg and Mike Resnick (DAW Books, January 1994).
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    • Short Story 4.Black Betsy by Dean Wesley Smith, in Alternate Outlaws, edited by Mike Resnick (Tor, October 1994).
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    • Short Story 5.A Song of the Gift Horse by Dean Wesley Smith, in Black Cats and Broken Mirrors, edited by Martin H. Greenberg and John Helfers (SAW Books, June 1998).
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    • Short Story 6.The Ghost of the Garden Lounge by Dean Wesley Smith, in Time After Time, edited by Denise Little (DAW Books, November 2005) .
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    • Short Story 7.Our Slaying Song Tonight
      by Dean Wesley Smith, in Five from the Jukebox (WMG Publishing, January 2011) [ebook].
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    • Short Story 8.The Songs of Memory by Dean Wesley Smith (WMG Publishing, January 2011) [ebook].
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    • Short Story 9.He Could Have Coped with Dragons by Dean Wesley Smith (WMG Publishing, mid 2012) [ebook].
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    • Short Story 10.She Arrived without a Song by Dean Wesley Smith (WMG Publishing, March  2011) [ebook].
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    • Short Story 11 [ebook].The Wages of the Moment by Dean Wesley Smith (WMG Publishing, July 2011) [ebook].
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  1. Debut—debut dates from Amazon Kindle editions: He Could Have Coped with Dragons (November 2009); She Arrived without a Song (March 2011); The Wages of the Moment (July 2011).