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The Red Notebook
After a night of excess. Mark Collins found himself in a cross roads. Continue to kill himself with drugs and alcohol. Or leave for the city of Toronto where he finds
himself working the most bizarre job he has ever had...and he's had plenty!
The Red Notebook is both a contemporary ode to literary classics such as "Naked Lunch", "Post office", and "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas", and a story so original
it can only be described as "A tale too mature to falsely advertise".
himself working the most bizarre job he has ever had...and he's had plenty!
The Red Notebook is both a contemporary ode to literary classics such as "Naked Lunch", "Post office", and "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas", and a story so original
it can only be described as "A tale too mature to falsely advertise".
220 pages, Kindle Edition
Published March 18, 2025
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October 15, 2025
Surprisingly poignant and heartfelt, this outlandish "true story" of a small-town boy moved to the big city and working at an adult store was a wild ride. Mark Collins, the self-insert for the author, comes to blows with a small-town cop after a night of heavy drinking, and realizes he needs to change his life. Moving south to Toronto, a series of misfortunes land him couch-surfing and with limited career prospects, until he gets a job at a downtown adult store, having to clean up video booths, restock merchandise, and be on the lookout for a notorious DVD thief they call Houdini. Fans of Bukowski will love this tale of auto-fiction.
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