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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.

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Here is the next audio short story from "Six Deaths," titled "A High-Velocity One."







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

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.

Open publication - Free publishing - More six sentences

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Here is the next audio short story from "Six Deaths," a macabre tale titled "An Ocular One."







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

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.

Open publication - Free publishing - More six sentences

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Here is the next audio short story from "Six Deaths," titled "A Romantic One."







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

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.

Open publication - Free publishing - More six sentences

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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 No

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I first became a die-hard Iron Maiden fan during the Piece of Mind era. So my preference has always been for the stretch of albums that included The Number of the Beast, Piece of Mind, and Powerslave. Recently however, I've been going back to rediscover the Paul Di'anno era, especially the Killers album which is pretty damn stellar in terms of songs and musicianship. Part of my recent return to this time in Maiden's career has to do with how hungry the band was -- they were starting to build a r

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I'm going to continue the run through old school Metal history -- and albums produced by Chris Tsangarides (see Tygers of Pan Tang's Spellbound) -- with the original kings of Canadian metal, Anvil. I found this tour promo version of the classic Metal on Metal at A-1 Records in the East Village. While some of the songs don't hold up as well now, there are three all time classics on here that any self-respecting metalhead should have in their music library: the instrumental "March of the Crabs," "

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<a></a>I was on vacation in San Francisco recently and one of the necessary items on my to-do list was a pilgrimage to City Lights Books. While perusing the shelves, I spied a signed copy of Daniel Granbois’ Unlucky Lucky Days. Knowing the man’s name and having heard great things about him from trustworthy people, I decided to plunk down some hard-earned cash.

Grandbois gave me my money’s worth. Even though it is a slim book at 117 pages, Unlucky Lucky Days is packed with 73 short tales. The longest ma

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I was lucky enough to have some time off last week to fly out to San Francisco and check out one of my favorite all time bands, Carcass. As soon as I heard reports of a full-on reunion last summer, I was pretty driven to see one of the most important death metal bands tear it up live. I had actually caught their show in New York City last fall, but had a friend on the west coast who was dying to see them and decided it was a good excuse for a little R&R. Those guys never disappoint. Everything a

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One of the all-time great (and too often forgotten about) New Wave of British Heavy Metal Albums. Released at the same time as Iron Maiden's Killers, Tygers of Pan Tang's Spellbound just tears it up. It was their second album, with two new members, so the band had a lot to prove. In addition, they were competing with the likes of Priest, Maiden, Saxon, Def Leppard, Angel Witch, and Motörhead who all released stellar albums around this time. And the album still holds up to this day (as opposed to

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