Publisher's Synopsis
Within the whacked-out worlds of these twisted tales, only one thing is constant:
Everything is better when laced with the tears of a clown... A girl and boy are thrilled to get a pet hospice. A sexually adventurous couple learns the hard way why you must never accidently dial "811" during an emergency. A deadbeat dad gains employment as a lady-in-waiting in a fairytale bromance where everyone looks like a different character from John Carpenter's The Thing. The unknowing victim of a cruel prank, a simpleton spends his entire life waiting on a park bench for the hottest girl in school. To watch the brand new remake of Citizen Kane, two moviegoers must sneak into the theater because the movie is rated Z: no one under 100 years old admitted. Using only a twenty-sided die and good old-fashioned D&D magic, a man must continually resurrect the neighborhood kid regularly murdered on his own front lawn. An aging slaughterhouse worker and the iconic figure from Edvard Munch's The Scream painting hit the clubs every weekend in a vain attempt to get laid. These and many more ABSURDITIES await in Clown Tear Junkies, the debut short story collection from Douglas Hackle, with a new introduction by Brian Bowyer..
