Dial 'M' For Monkey (book)
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’, ‘weird, wonderful, twisted and witty’ and even ‘almost Fawlty Towers’. 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
- 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 [...] Ain't Gonna Like That