Notes on Content

In order to ensure the most pleasurable reading experience to all readers, the author provides the following content notes for each of the works available for purchase on this website.

Spoiler alert - Do not read further if you wish to enjoy the works of G. Donald Black without prior knowledge of content.

Some scenes in the works of the author may be upsetting for some readers. A non-exhaustive list of potentially disturbing content in each alphabetically-arranged work appears below.

The Children (short story) - murder or attempted murder, child abuse, death, physical violence, blood/gore, mental health, addiction, grief, poisoning.

Dark Matters: 17 Twisted & Disturbing Tales (collection) - coarse language, sexual explicitness, death, addiction, cancer, medical treatment and procedures, grief, divorce, substance abuse, transportation accident, blood/gore, murder or attempted murder, child abuse, physical violence, mental health, poisoning, suicide or self-harm, child endangerment, domestic abuse, bones, body-shaming, Satanic themes, nuclear disaster, natural disaster, incest, pedophilia, kidnapping, hostage situation, stalking, hunting, racism, animal abuse/death, decapitation, animal attack.

Fallout (short story) - coarse language, infidelity, death, nuclear disaster.

Father's Day (short story) - coarse language, suicide or self-harm, divorce, mental health, grief, death.

The Gala (short story) - coarse language, sexual explicitness, sexual assault, incest, pedophilia, child abuse, assault, death, mental health, medical treatment and procedures, grief.

Head On (short story) - coarse language, sexual explicitness, suicide, domestic abuse, kidnapping, death, mental health, grief, hostage situation, transportation accident.

Highway Therapy (short story)- coarse language, divorce, substance abuse, addiction, transportation accident, death, blood/gore, grief.

Just Shoot Me (short story) - coarse language, murder or attempted murder, infidelity, divorce, substance abuse.

Malana (novella) - coarse language, sexual explicitness, stalking, murder or attempted murder, racism, mental health.

New Tricks (short story) - physical violence, coarse language, domestic abuse, death, animal abuse/death, mental health, grief.

The Outpost (novelette) - coarse language, murder or attempted murder, physical violence, stalking, assault, death, hunting, animal attack, mental health, racism.

Rick's Pics (short story) - sexual explicitness, coarse language, infidelity, body-shaming, addiction, mental health.

Safecracker (short story) - child endangerment, murder, death, grief.

Social Disease (short story) - coarse language, sexual explicitness, death, addiction, cancer, medical treatment and procedures, grief.

Something Lost (novelette) - murder or attempted murder, physical violence, domestic abuse, death, grief, bones.

Syrma (short story) - death, natural disaster.

The Watering Hole (short story) - murder or attempted murder, physical violence, assault, blood/gore, animal abuse/death, decapitation, grief.

Word Salad (novelette) - murder or attempted murder, Satanic themes, physical violence, death, mental health, medical treatment or procedures.