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Songs the Dead Men Sing

'Boney' Moroney was living testimony to the effectiveness of the Monkey Treatment. He looked terrible but he'd shed a hell of a lot of weight. You could even see the hint of a skeleton under his skin.

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"It's a miracle," he told Kenny, tucking into a big plate of ribs.

Fat Kenny Dorohester weighed in at 360 lbs-plus, and had been trying to lose most of it for longer than he cared to remember. The grapefruit diet, the brown rice diet, the liquid protein diet - none of them worked and all of them tasted awful. But a diet that encouraged you to eat like a horse and lose weight was something else.

So there and then, he signed up for the Monkey Treatment...

Contents:

- The Monkey Treatment

- ...for a single yesterday

- The Needle Men

- Meathouse Man

- Sandkings

- Nightflyers

- Remembering Melody

Audience
adult
Length
short · 196 pages

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