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Cliche: A Comedy of Horrors
The most cliche-ridden horror story you will ever read, complete with an evil doll, a child drawing crazy stuff in black crayon, a wheelchair moving seemingly on its own and cats running out and startling people. Oh, so many cats. This was just for macabre, stupid fun.
20 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 1, 2014
About the author
Dwayne Fry
62 books133 followersI was reading some time before other children my age. My dad helped to teach me and some of my reading skills were self-taught. I was reading books on my own before I entered Kindergarten. A severe underachiever in so many other academics, literature and language always came so easy to me.
Most people have a funny bone, even if modern science still can’t tell us where it’s located. I believe I have three. I always sought out books that were funny or whimsical. When I was eleven years old, I took it upon myself to write a novel that would be funnier than anything I’d ever read. Okay, full disclosure, I wrote it with a friend and his parts were funnier than mine. The book as a whole was pretty awful, though.
I have written numerous books over the years that were far too good for public consumption and they’ll never see the light of day. That’s the lie I tell myself, anyway. The truth is, I never tried to publish back then because I felt my work was a little too out there and most publishers would pass on it. Whether that’s reality or if I was just lazy, I’ll never tell. These days I self publish.
Most of what I offer are short stories and novellas, but I do have a novel in there called Rave On, about a rockabilly singer who falls for a magician with a strange secret. My second novel, Suckers & Rogues, is a coming-of-age tragedy about a group of teenagers working in the corn fields of Iowa in the mid-eighties. My third should be out soon. It’s called Survival of the Funnest and it’s the wacky story about a man who travels to Africa for a reality TV competition, and what happens to him and his family after returning home.
Most people have a funny bone, even if modern science still can’t tell us where it’s located. I believe I have three. I always sought out books that were funny or whimsical. When I was eleven years old, I took it upon myself to write a novel that would be funnier than anything I’d ever read. Okay, full disclosure, I wrote it with a friend and his parts were funnier than mine. The book as a whole was pretty awful, though.
I have written numerous books over the years that were far too good for public consumption and they’ll never see the light of day. That’s the lie I tell myself, anyway. The truth is, I never tried to publish back then because I felt my work was a little too out there and most publishers would pass on it. Whether that’s reality or if I was just lazy, I’ll never tell. These days I self publish.
Most of what I offer are short stories and novellas, but I do have a novel in there called Rave On, about a rockabilly singer who falls for a magician with a strange secret. My second novel, Suckers & Rogues, is a coming-of-age tragedy about a group of teenagers working in the corn fields of Iowa in the mid-eighties. My third should be out soon. It’s called Survival of the Funnest and it’s the wacky story about a man who travels to Africa for a reality TV competition, and what happens to him and his family after returning home.
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September 11, 2015
It was a cat!
Another entertaining read by Dwayne Fry. To be honest, I didn't know what I was getting into when I chose to read this short story. I just needed something quick and since I had read other shorts by the same author, I told myself why not? I started this while I had just a little bit of free time. Good thing it was short because I forgot everything else around me and finished it.
I can understand why some people might feel the story was all over the place, but there was a pattern to this madness, and quite frankly, I loved it. Cliché? But of course! But that's what made it fun to read.
Another entertaining read by Dwayne Fry. To be honest, I didn't know what I was getting into when I chose to read this short story. I just needed something quick and since I had read other shorts by the same author, I told myself why not? I started this while I had just a little bit of free time. Good thing it was short because I forgot everything else around me and finished it.
I can understand why some people might feel the story was all over the place, but there was a pattern to this madness, and quite frankly, I loved it. Cliché? But of course! But that's what made it fun to read.
May 6, 2017
Quite silly, but in a good way. Not much I can say beyond that as this is rather short and, well, the name says it all anyway.
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