He simply chose a new affliction to account for his shitty behavior.

At one point, after moving from the UK to the US, he stopped going to the office and allegedly pretended to be his brother Jake just so he could keep his inner circle updated on his supposed brave struggle in fighting yet another tumor.Īfter the loss of trust in his circle of professionals, Mallory realized that the cancer thing was all played out and so he promptly ended his dubious lying and retreated from the limelight hahaha of course he didn’t. Yeah, the guy told his colleagues at Little, Brown in London that he had cancer (again, because he started using this kind of lie back in his college days) and that, according to his doctors, wouldn’t live to see 40. For years, Mallory got promotions and people’s time of day by pretending to have been poached by other companies, having just the worst of childhoods, and oh, also having a tumor every other day of the week. Little did his colleagues and professional acquaintances know that his family was very much alive.

If you listen closely, you’ll hear a thousand excellent writers spontaneously combust.Īt first, many who crossed his path thought that the talkative Mallory was absolutely charming (ding ding ding!) and sympathized with his incredible suffering in losing his entire family to either cancer or suicide.

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