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Sinister Minutes
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A podcast filled with dark fiction set to disturbing music. Horrific, fantastic, dystopian, but always tinged with a bit of sinister darkness.
Stories that are definitely NOT okay.

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Sinister Minutes 2:10 Guest author K.G. McAbee serves up a tasty treat she calls 'Aunt Clytie’s Canning Jars.'

Then it's time to clean up a sticky mess with Tim's 'Ectoplasm III.'

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July 25, 2025 at 1:36 PM
‪Sinister Minutes 2:9 provides an opportunity for patients to show their patience in "Waiting Room."

Then slip into a horrific composition called "Tone Poem: It Bites"

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July 14, 2025 at 1:38 PM
‪Sinister Minutes 2:8 is a tribute to Edgar Allen Poe, including a haunting rendition of the Tell-tale Heart, a bleak look via the Conqueror Worm, and an original composition called Mummy Dust.
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June 28, 2025 at 1:52 PM
‪Sinister Minutes 2:7 brings a fairy godmother gone wrong, a haunted parking lot, and a creaky staircase in the middle of the night.
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June 16, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Sinister Minutes 2:6 provides a taste of a live performance, featuring excerpts from the recent Black Masquerade and Mayfaire shows.

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May 31, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Sinister Minutes 2:5 features a fictional meal in "Best Served Cold" and "Eldritch Porridge" for a musical dessert, with a little Tempus Fugit and a mouse thrown in for good measure.

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May 16, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Sinister Minutes 2:4 features "Blood on the Keys," featuring a writer finding his muse and opening a fresh vein of creativity.

Then, time for a hot date with "Insidious Mistress."

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May 2, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Sinister Minutes S2, Ep3
Elmo the Ghost Cat is one bad-ass feline, faithful to his pet human for a life well lived—and beyond.

Then some insomnia fodder with "Nightmare III"

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April 18, 2025 at 7:26 PM
‪Sinister Minutes S2, Ep2
Conjuring demons, desecration of the dead, murder, revenge, and some delightful bone collecting. Plus today's disturbing musical interlude "The Empty Crypt."
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April 4, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Sinister Minutes Season 2, Episode 1
How should you react if you wake to find a giant dragon crammed into your room, unable to stretch without sinking its talons into everything, unable to yawn without incinerating the entire building?
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March 21, 2025 at 8:08 PM
‪Sinister Minutes 26: How far would you go to help a friend discover the true meaning of life? Find out on "Going Home."

Then, if the story doesn't leave you unsettled, the music just might. Eldritch, from Tim Parker.

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March 8, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Sinister Minutes 25: a tribute to a master of short horror fiction, Ambrose Bierce. The Boarded Window (death on the frontier), and An Inhabitant of Carcosa (a rough awakening). Also new music from the maestro called "Pandemonium 3."
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February 22, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Sinister Minutes 24 presents adventures in mythology. Apples of immortality, selkies slipping their skins, and the latest gorgon hairstyles, as well as new music from Tim.

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February 13, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Sinister Minutes 23 asks, what if life really is a game? Guest author Maurice Forrester steps up, rolls the bones and throws us a tale called A Need for Disorder. After the story, there's new music from Tim, "Midnight Visit."

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January 24, 2025 at 11:34 PM
‪Sinister Minutes 22: Life Coach, plus Shake My Bones

A little feel-good, motivational advice never hurt so much.

If this short story is any indication of where my writing is headed in the near future, it's gonna be a long, snarky ride.

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January 17, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Sinister Minutes 21 kicks the last remnants of the holiday season down the stairs with "Hell of a Holiday," where getting hit by a bus is the nicest part of the day, then "Lady in White," original music from Tim Parker.

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January 7, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Sinister Minutes 20 is all about unboxing: Is "A Box of Hope" worth opening? Can you handle something "Delightfully Intense?" "Why is the Cellar Door Open," original music from Tim Parker, will leave you wondering that very thing.

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January 7, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Sinister Minutes Episode 19 features "Can't Leave Without You," a YA dark fiction piece from Tracy Minsterman; and "Under the Bed," original music from Tim Parker. Check it out!

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December 3, 2024 at 6:51 PM
Sinister Minutes performing live at the Black Masquerade
December 1, 2024 at 2:56 PM