Sauced up, Scarred and at Sleaze

"Might just be the most original work of Transgressive Fiction you’ll read this year. McKay’s style is both unique and innovative. He’s also unflinchingly fearless, which is something I really appreciate and admire in a writer. He is, without question, one of the best new writers that I’ve come across in sometime." - Cody Sexton, award-winning book blogger and critic of athinsliceofanxiety.comSauced UpA slang (or 'colloquial' for the more literary-minded) term for being drunk or high on illegal drugs, which many of the characters either are or wish to be.Also hinting at the 'saucy' and transgressive elements that fuel each story.Think smashed, horny and shitfaced.ScarredAn insinuation to the emotional state of the personas portrayed. An ill-intentioned wink towards the debauched and defaced world they inhabit.Think distressed, damaged and perhaps most potently, disturbed.At SleazeA cheekily-natured play on the phrase 'at ease', as some of the players involved are comfortable with their moral degradation, whilst this book celebrates it. A warning towards the faint of heart, readers of a sensitive disposition and pusscakes.Think immoral, smutty and sordid.Sauced up, Scarred and at SleazeA collection of 8 short stories and novelettes, split right down the middle. Contains themes of drug and alcohol abuse, promiscuous behaviour, nihilism and traumatising coming of age lessons. In other words, 'Existential Porn.'A salacious anthology of dank, transgressive tales so full of sin you'll wonder how the hell the author stayed alive long enough to write them.Think: Why am I Not Reading this Right Now? Who the Fuck puts Bullet Points on a Fiction Book? and Did This Blurb Just Call Me a Pusscake?"This book isn't for everybody. You've got to be willing to take a trip through some pretty dark places and entertain some of the most perverse ideas committed to paper, completely free of moral judgement." - Author, Alex Swery (sharpobjectspress.com)"Whilst reading, I experienced a sentiment akin to the partaking of forbidden fruit which incited me to continue until the bitter end. Definitely worth leaving your comfort zone for." - J. Alejo, Amazon.co.uk Review"A disturbingly well-written collection of stories. Sometimes when I found at the verge of becoming disgusted, I caught myself laughing at an absurd turn of events. How do you get out of a hopeless, and sometimes, ridiculous situation? This book offers stories that describe just that" - Nobody, Amazon Reviewer (of damn good books)"A roller coaster ride through the dirtiest side of the people next door." - Anna Civolani, Writer and Editor"Sauced up reminds me of Last Exit to Brooklyn, by Hubert Selby, Jr., one of my favorite transgressive authors of all time. It’s got the same rawness to it, a feeling of vitality and life flowing underneath all the grit and slime. I totally loved it." - Lauren Sapala, author of Between the Shadow and Lo, Firefly Magic and The INFJ WriterNow available on audible, narrated by the author.

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