Ulysses Dies At Dawn
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Ulysses dies at dawn.
Well, that's the word on the street, at any rate, if you talk to anyone who saw what went down at Calypso's Bar the other night. Let me tell you, it wasn't pretty.
Who is behind the thuggish band known as the Suits? What is Ulysses's secret? And what is hidden within the security of the Vault?
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This is a retelling of 'Ulysses Dies At Dawn', The Mechanisms' second studio album by The Mechanisms, written 2012-2013 and presented at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in August 2013. It was written with the band's permission, and without any commercial aim.
'Ulysses Dies At Dawn' is ©The Mechanisms
http://themechanisms.bandcamp.com/album/ulysses-dies-at-dawn
Novel version and cover are ©Yzabel Ginsberg
All Rights Reserved
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