“ An easy and compulsive read, Merciful Flush by Lance Manion is a blogging success story and definitely worth picking up for any travel reading. Very very very very imaginative, I can’t believe what is now in my mind that wasn’t there before.  Rating: ★★★★☆.”

-Anya   On Starships and Dragonwings

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“On the other hand, Ball Washer is incredibly well-written and cerebral for all its baseness. The contrast is rather fantastic. Lance takes the very graphic and often embarrassing parts of life and opens them wide for all to see. That is a kind of bravery in writing that not many authors can claim.”

“Here we have a collection of strange little tales, fully of the wacky and the wild. Now, some are hilarious, others are quirky and strange, like the author says, it’s like a video montage.”

*   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.

*   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.