Kara stared at the computer screen blankly. She was reading fiction on the Internet, like she normally did. It helped compensate for her horrid lack of a love life.

Does the character always have to announce that their life is a cliché? I mean, it doesn't help. We can still see that the author made a horrible cliché out of the character's life. Whoop-dee-doo.

This was not one of her better days. She'd just gone to a school dance.

It was 1:37 AM, October 31, and Kara would've rather trick-or-treated.