Dial 'M' for Monkey (short story collection)
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| Author | Adam Maxwell |
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| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Short story, flash fiction |
| Publisher | Tonto Press |
Publication date | 2006 |
| Media type | Print (paperback) |
| Pages | Approx. 130 pp |
| ISBN | 0-9552183-2-2 Search this book on  . |
| OCLC | 173078759 |
Dial M For Monkey is a collection of 20 short stories and flash fiction by Adam Maxwell first published in 2006.
Maxwell's writing has been described in the press as a ‘Chandler-esque hard-boiled cocktail, stirred with equal parts humour, mystery, gut-wrenching realism, and trademark minimalism’,[1] ‘weird, wonderful, twisted and witty’[2] and even ‘almost Fawlty Towers’.[3] Some of these stories are of a traditional short story length but most are flash fiction weighing in well under 1000-words.
The twenty stories collected some of Maxwell's previously published work across the print and electronic mediums whilst also including selection of stories written specifically for this collection. Notably 'Happiness Is A Warm Gun' - a flash fiction in which the main character tests this premise by placing a gun in the microwave - was originally featured in Dave Eggers' McSweeneys.
The stories[edit]
- Happiness Is A Warm Gun
- Shooting Jelly With A Shotgun
- Jim Morrison's Leg
- I Almost Spanked A Monkey
- The Holy Face of Gary Barlow
- The Beginning
- Sherry For Breakfast
- Sprouts
- Rudolph Redux
- Special K and the Yorkshire Terrier
- A Stroll Along the Prom, Prom, Prom
- Sandwiches
- Self Assembly
- Is That To Go?
- It Happens
- To Let: Ground Floor Flat
- The Dangers of eBay
- The Things We Said Today
- Noise Abatement
- The Cock Ain't Gonna Like That
External links[edit]
- Website of Adam Maxwell containing more of his flash fiction and short stories
- '...one of the web's best self-published writers' - The Guardian
- 'Happiness Is A Warm Gun' by Adam Maxwell on McSweeney's Internet Tendency
- Monkeys Just The Business for Adam - The Journal
Footnotes[edit]
- ↑ Chris Steib - Buy A Friend A Book
- ↑ Modart Magazine
- ↑ Pulp.net
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