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  Now my hand smells of gasoline. Like I said: It’s been a long night, my friend—one hell of a long night.

  About the Author

  KIRK ALEX grew up in Chicago. “Found myself in the jungles of South-East Asia at 19. Got through that. Returned to the Windy City and bought a typewriter. Little did I know that it would take years to develop a style, a voice, let alone get anywhere with it. Headed west soon after: L.A., and that madness. This was the early ’70s.”

  “Was a furniture mover, delivered phone books door to door, drove a taxi, was a movie extra, worked in a factory, painted apartments, was a shipping clerk, did TV repos even, sold rebuilt mattresses to Sunset Strip prostitutes and out-of-work Hollywood actor types.”

  “Bottom line: My Olivetti/LETTERA manual provided the only light at the end of the tunnel. Granted, it may have been a weak light; still, it was the only lifeline available. Without books/writing, I might have easily ended up in a straitjacket in a rubber room somewhere, or dead.”

  Kirk Alex is also the author of: nonentity — A Novel; Blood, Sweat and Chump Change — Taxi Tales & Vignettes, and the upcoming horror tome: Lustmord: Anatomy of a Serial Butcher.

  He also wrote, edited and directed Lunch Meat, a low-budget Super-8 horror flick shot on Kodachrome 40 in 14 days in 1986.

  Table of Contents

  Reviews

  Title Page

  Copyright

  Fame At 2 A.M.

  What’s Love Got To Do With Anything?

  Get Married, And Have A Good Life

  A Popular Fellow

  Better Than Money

  Trouble With A Diva

  Working the Hard Side of the Street

  Long Night

  About the Author