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Six Deaths — six new, six-sentence stories

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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.”

If you don’t have flash, use this link to listen

Things I’ve discovered this week…

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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 →