A romantic tale of the big top -- in the time of the great circus trains that delivered a wild magic to the American heartland.
The year is 1935 and Jasper Grady, twelve years-old, in Wichita, Kansas flees an abusive home and casts his lot with The Greenbaugh Majestic Circus, The Miracle Colossus, where he will meet . . .
Bap, the genius clown and keeper of dark secrets . . .
Beth and Anne Kelly, twin trapeze artists who look like fairytale princesses and seem to share a single, troubled soul . . .
Roy Renaldo, the matinee-idol knife-thrower and lethal lover . . .
Carl Ellenbeck, the lion tamer, who is terrified his big cats will discover how terrified he is of them . . .
Colonel Adam S. Greenbaugh, owner of the circus, who watches as his way of life slips slowly into the realm of forgotten dreams . . .
But in this novella the dream lives on, in all its sordid, beautiful, breathtaking, heartbreaking glory.
Lloyd Fonvielle is a screenwriter (The Mummy, 1999), director (Gotham, 1988) and author—of the pulp novel Bloodbath and the Western novella Missouri Green, both available on Amazon for the Kindle, as well as Fourteen Western Stories, available for the Kindle and in a paperback edition. He lives in Las Vegas, Nevada and plays some poker there from time to time. He publishes an online journal of visual culture at mardecortesbaja.com.
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