Moe Howard Died For Our Sins
made-to-fit tales for the maladjusted
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"...Dale Andrew White is a natural born storyteller with an especial flair for blending fantasy, whimsy, satire, and a fevered imagination into original stories that are replete with ribald humor and reader-engaging novelty. Subtitled ´made-to-fit tales for the maladjusted,´ this collection of short stories showcase a genuine and offbeat talent... Highly recommended reading!" - Midwest Book Review
"Dale Andrew White is a devious writer and his new collection, Moe Howard Died For Our Sins, provides incriminating evidence of this. On the one hand, the flavor his tales faintly evokes the decayed ante-bellum style of Southern literature that is both lyrically humorous and self-deprecating: the sort of thing we get in Faulkner´s Sartoris or Mark Twain´s Huckleberry Finn. ... On the other hand, this is not the satire of Ambrose Bierce or H.L. Mencken. It is more like the kind of in-your-face semantic slapstick that you might expect of a George Carlin or Lenny Bruce... To open this collection is to invite trouble - and probably enjoy it. ... Excellent!". - Rod Clark, editor of Rosebud Magazine, on BookReview.com
With humor as twisted as its stories’ plots, Moe Howard Died For Our Sins takes readers on a rollicking, hilarious ride. Go to Hell - and see it as a tourist. Get lured into a pie-throwing cult. Peek backstage at the Second Coming. Encounter talking pigs, a tongue-twisting poet, levitating patients, militant tots and a song-and-dance act that’s its own show-stopper. The misadventures just keep coming. Part fantasy, part satire, this collection of short fiction is totally bent.
Stories include: "The Dirtiest Words in the World," "The South´s Greatest Writer," "Lunacy Grounded," "Life of the Party," "Feed the Lawyers," "Mrs. Reinsman Rides Again," "Moe Howard Died For Our Sins" and 12 more "made-to-fit tales for the maladjusted" -- all snatched from the pages of Modern Short Stories, Comic Relief, Beyond Science Fiction & Fantasy, Nuthouse and other magazines.
About the Author
Dale Andrew White is a two-fingered typist and part-time iconoclast whose short fiction has appeared in Modern Short Stories, Comic Relief, Beyond Science Fiction & Fantasy and numerous other periodicals.