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Robert Crisman replied to R.R. Stevens's discussion 'Why Read Quotes?'

A lot of great quotes! I love quotes--and can't remember a single goddamn one of them right now, so I'm going to lay a bunch of mine on you from short stories I've written: Like Prince said one time, parties aren't meant to last. The guys who don't…

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Wedding Venues

My cousin Shiela is planning to get married this year 2010. She asked me to help her planning for her big day. We are still on the process of searching for nice wedding venues Melbourne Australia. She wanted to have an elegant wedding venue that wou…

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Pamila Payne commented on Robert Crisman's blog post 'Hey, Check It Out!'

Damn. That was good, good, good. I started reading it out loud by the third or fourth line because there was just too much sound in it. You served as my voice exercise for the day. I can see your movie already, excellent imagery, and the language...…

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Sandra Davies commented on Paul de Denus's blog post 'I’m Only Human'

LOL - and a show-off to boot! (I'm wondering how tempted everyone else will be to expose their various physical shortcomings; me, I'm keeping quiet)

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B. Lynn Goodwin commented on Robert McEvily's video 'The 6S Love Book'

Congratulations, writers. I love the concept of a six sentence story, and every time I visit this site, I enjoy what I find. If you write short fiction and are not opposed to contests, consider entering Writer Advice's Fifth Annual Flash Prose Conte…

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Edward Dean commented on DD Peattie's blog post 'My 6S Treatise & Truisms of: The Cellphone'

Okay KAWF; five out of a hundred is acceptable! I breathe easier with your new adjective.

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Pamila Payne commented on Kim Soles's blog post 'Feed'

How lovely is that? Really nice. It is so satisfying to provide food and watch the simple enjoyment.

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Pamila Payne commented on Paul de Denus's blog post 'I’m Only Human'

You scratch your beard with your toenails? Are you a werewolf? Funny six - humans and their hair make no sense at all.

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I’m Only Human

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Lydia commented on Kim Soles's blog post 'Feed'

Very nice Kim, I love the whole story,especially the last line. Ciao

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Lydia commented on Vineeta Nair's blog post 'Love'

Very nice 6S about LOVE Vineeta.

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I’m Only Human

Some believe an “intelligent designer” created us but if that were true, our teeth would be made of titanium, we’d have Clark Kent eyes, the words, ‘hemorrhoid’ and ‘erectile dysfunction’ would not exist and questionable parts such as finger and toe nails, eyebrows, ear lobes, male nipples and the appendix would all need to find something else to do. I believe in the theory that we evolve… simple creatures with yes, questionable parts but all virtually the same with slight incremental difference… Continue

Posted by Paul de Denus on February 10, 2010 at 12:02am — 3 Comments

Online Dating Blues

An angel bit the the dust today. Well not really the angel, I did. She was just one of those where The Cat would curl up and miaow "If I follow you home, you gonna keep me?".

The Cat's non-life goes on. More emails, more fancy prose. It comes down to that elusive chemistry, maybe there is more to it, who would want to share the Cat's life?

Posted by Mike Rochette on February 9, 2010 at 10:25pm

Feed

I fed the animals today.

The tabby, eyes eternal as fine amber unite with mine and I fill his dish.

The bunny, merrily dances circles as I stand still as a mulberry bush, she stops for a moment to accept green leaves.

The sleepy, sable eyes of the hamster pry wide open and I offer him striped seeds as he rises up on his miniature legs.

And the congregating birds; nuthatches, cardinals, red bellied woodpeckers, blue jays, juncos, wrens and chickadees, take turns at the abundant feeder.

I sav… Continue

Posted by Kim Soles on February 9, 2010 at 9:45pm — 2 Comments

Hey, Check It Out!

I wrote a story, "An Old Sweet Song," about a guy's fight with his demon, which went up on A Twist of Noir blogsite today. I told my friend to check it out, and she did, and wrote back to tell me that she fucking LOVED it!!!!!! That's a quote, exclamations and all!
She also said, let everyone know about "Song." Write a six-sentence blog on 6S and let people know that you wrote a… Continue

Posted by Robert Crisman on February 9, 2010 at 9:18pm — 5 Comments

Money Motivated!

Mark had to go away, it was essential to the cause, his earnings were low, he indulged his own desires on our coin and he knew way too much of the business to allow for his risky departure; his brother was among our biggest money makers, the handling of this problem needed to be an accident or at the very least, seem like a case of bad luck, something which is always lurking in our line of work.

I had Brian, a top earner no closer than ten zip codes away approach Mark with an easy scor

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Posted by Donald Harris on February 9, 2010 at 7:31pm — 3 Comments

More than six sentences

The sun was rising behind him. He couldn't see it, but its rays were warming the willow’s long leaves, which stirred in the dawn breeze. A small bird flitted from branch to branch. He wondered what it was. A titmouse? He had always felt uncomfortable with that name; it suggested budding teenybopper breasts… Funny to be thinking about that now of all times. He smiled in spite of himself, then regretted it as water seeped in through the corner of his mouth. The musk of river water and silt had set… Continue

Posted by Timothy G. on February 9, 2010 at 5:09pm — 3 Comments

Navel-gazing Brain Pickage of When & Why I Comply

Our discussion forum asked for my 5 favorite movies. Like leaving a child behind when off to Disneyland, the limiter of a handful found me omitting a comedy (Dirty Rotten Scoundels) and drama (Braveheart) on the comparatively small list of movies I'd watch repeatedly.

I had the room and time to enter 476 titles, yet struggled comply listing 5.

So am I wishy-washy or respectful or obedient or anal-retentive, or is it my Virgo birth sign or

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Posted by DD Peattie on February 9, 2010 at 4:20pm — 7 Comments

The Guest Book - 19

Stabbing Clark in the heart was the simplest, most obvious solution, so Romeo picked up the guy's empty coffee cup, slipped a knife up his sleeve while he refilled it –– halfway, no sense wasting a full cup of coffee –– then held it out to him like the gracious host that he was. When Clark reached out and took the cup, Romeo leaned in and drove the knife into the sweet spot, without so much as a, "Sorry, pal." Romeo expected the gasp of shock, the tumbling coffee cup and the gush of blood,

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Posted by Pamila Payne on February 9, 2010 at 2:30pm — 5 Comments

Madame le Pardo

Madame le Pardo offered tea-leaf fortunes from a little tent
outside the cricket pavilion and for an undisclosed sum (it was illegal
to tell fortunes for money but you were encouraged to give a gift) she
would tell your future. Her method differed from the carnival lot, for
in addition to the customary wet leaves she would prick your thumb with
a needle and squeeze out three drops of rich, red life. He predictions
would then be frighteningly detailed. "You'll meet a fair headed man
with… Continue

Posted by Rachel Green on February 9, 2010 at 1:42pm — 4 Comments

Papering over

The wallpaper had been over-due for replacing lon

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Posted by Sandra Davies on February 9, 2010 at 10:55am — 6 Comments

The 6S Love Book

Today's Featured Six

Love, in the Barrel of a Gun

by Alun Williams

I grew up in the eighties, a product of ageing hippie parents who never let go of the Summer of Love. While I wanted an ordinary, modern upbringing, my parents, with the incredibly goofy names of Skye Blue and Ash would drag me off to festivals, full of their contemporaries and make me listen to music from people I couldn’t relate to, at least not then. For my seventh birthday, our next door neighbour bought me a replica machine gun which my dad would never let me leave the house without a flower in the barrel. It wasn’t the wisest thing he ever did, as most of the kids in the block thought I was crazy, but he was adamant that shooting people with bullets was wrong and that I should learn from an early age that love was the answer to everything. Love is not the answer to everything as I now know, especially as I have to pay excessive child maintenance for thirteen children from five different partners. I don’t expect them to have my personal values, but they can all sing along to all the songs from Woodstock, and you know, for that I’m eternally grateful.

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Alun Williams loves Bukowski. His work has appeared in Write Side up, Bonfire, The Legendary, Darkest Before Dawn, Litsnack (awaiting publication), Cambrensis (now dead), Twisted Tongue, Secret Attic, Blue Tattoo, and PaleHouse.

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