Each small story that makes up the book is filled with dark satirical humor, and the stories in Merciful Flush are morbidly addicting.

“It isn’t often that I pick up a book and feel that it’s so wrong and yet so right. The stories all have a certain amount of quirkiness and snark that makes them fun to read. My rating for this book is a 4 out of 5.”

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“So, if you enjoy David Sedaris, Tina Fey or movies like The Hangover (parts 1 and 2), Bridesmaids, or even Your Highness, it is quite likely that you’ll enjoy Lance Manion’s collection.”

– Zserilyn Finney   The John Hopkins News-Letter

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*   I always look at the human body as pretty easy to cut up. Just snip at all the joints; ankles and wrists and elbows.

*   Memories are like scars on your brain.

*   I might as well be rejoicing about extracting individual hexadecimal digits by calculating preceding ones using some lame Bailey-Borwein-Plouffe formula.

*   Words have always been a problem. This need to fill a conversation the same way you’d overstuff a piece of luggage for a short trip.

*   All I know is I like the image of a man sitting in a grocery store cradling a bottle of detergent.

*   If you want to be happy find a girl that is a balloon shaped like a kite.

*   Listen, you may think you’re the shit with your silk being stronger than steel of the same thickness and all but you don’t know dick about the weather.

*   Sometimes at night I lay there and imagine my face with no skin on it.

*   I swim with the same finesse that most people drown.

*     Eternity is every second you spend in fear.