Here is the final audio short story from “Six Deaths,” titled “A Holy One,” which is my personal favorite from the collection. Chalk it up to my blasphemous nature.
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You can read all six stories from Six Deaths by clicking on the image below or go to Six Sentences to check them out. Enjoy.
Here is the next audio short story from “Six Deaths,” titled “An Artistic One,” which kind of borrows a little bit from Balzac’s “The Unknown Masterpiece.”
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Be sure to check back tomorrow for the next installment.
You can read all six stories from Six Deaths by clicking on the image below or go to Six Sentences to check them out. Enjoy.
Here is the next audio short story from “Six Deaths,” titled “A High-Velocity One.”
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Be sure to check back tomorrow for the next installment.
You can read all six stories from Six Deaths by clicking on the image below or go to Six Sentences to check them out. Enjoy.
Here is the next audio short story from “Six Deaths,” a macabre tale titled “An Ocular One.”
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Be sure to check back tomorrow for the next installment.
You can read all six stories from Six Deaths by clicking on the image below or go to Six Sentences to check them out. Enjoy.
Here is the next audio short story from “Six Deaths,” titled “A Romantic One.”
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Be sure to check back tomorrow for the next installment.
You can read all six stories from Six Deaths by clicking on the image below or go to Six Sentences to check them out. Enjoy.
I’m proud to announce that Six Sentences has just posted a little collection of six macabre tales — each six sentences long — by yours truly titled “Six Deaths.” It’s kind of like my own little EP of Nick Cave songs. You can read the stories via the Issuu embed below or you can listen to the audio versions I’ll be posting here (one per day, starting today). Scroll down to view the stories or listen to the first story, “A Big Top One.” I actually wrote all the stories on my iPhone, using the Notes application, while riding the subway to and from work over the course of one week. Enjoy.
Listen to me reading “A Big Top One” from “Six Deaths.”
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My girlfriend, originally being from the South, has the weird ability to talk to the vegetables and fruits to learn when they are ripe and ready for eating. Being from New Jersey, I do not possess this ability.
I never thought Gore Vidal could be funny. Then I read this from the New York Times:
“As a literary showdown, Mario Vargas Llosa vs. Gabriel García Márquez ranks with some of the most famous feuds, including Lillian Hellman vs. Mary McCarthy, Vladimir Nabokov vs. Edmund Wilson, and Norman Mailer vs. Gore Vidal. (When the encounter between Mr. Mailer and Mr. Vidal turned physical, if not bloody, Mr. Vidal is said to have responded from the floor, ‘Words fail Norman Mailer yet again.’)”
I’ve been playing around on Issuu.com, a great new site where magazines, artists, photographers and even authors can digitize their printed work for viewing. People have posted portfolios, back issues, handmade books, and one industrious author has posted the entire text of The Love Book for people to read for free. The best part is that the documents, once uploaded, are embeddable so people can post them to their own blogs or sites. Continue reading