Clown Tear Junkies

Hackle may be the best absurdist story writer working today. Bradley Sands, author of TV Snorted My Brain Within the whacked-out worlds of these twisted tales, only one thing remains the same: Everything is better when laced with the tears of a clown When a sexually adventurous couple decides to spice things up by bringing bees into the mix, they learn it s never wise to dial 811 in case of an emergency. A deadbeat dad gains employment as a lady-in-waiting in a fairytale bromance where every character looks exactly like someone else 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. Using only his 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 hit the clubs every weekend in a vain attempt to get laid. These and many more absurdities await in Clown Tear Junkies, the debut collection from Douglas Hackle.