Not Suitable For Children: An Anthology (1998-2018)

By Douglas Mallon

A young man's infatuation with the woman of his dreams, an irate cab driver's mission to drown a litter of newborn kittens, a jilted waitress on the set of her first porn shoot, a compulsive gambler's final play, a compulsive masturbator's worst nightmare realized, a murderer takes his kids to the ballgame. Native New Yorker Douglas Mallon rights with vicious authenticity about the New York of his youth and the dregs of the streets that have left such an indelible influence upon his imagination. But this anthology is a bi-coastal affair. Mallon, who has called Los Angeles home for more than half his life, grants us privileged access into the world of West Coast showbiz through the prism of his alter-ego, Wreck Reynolds, a sex crazed chauffeur to the stars in Hollywood. It's not by chance that twenty-five stories are packed into this collection. Ever the working class wordsmith, Mallon offers the reader an invitation to a trip he or she will never forget, and does so at a bargain basement price. "Who the hell reads books anymore?" asks the oft-times ornery author. "If you're selling books these days you better make it a bargain." At less than fifty cents a story, he has certainly done that.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1792838948
• ISBN13: 9781792838941
• Release Date: December 2018
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.5" x 6.0"