Edition 6 - August 2024

Six brilliant short fictions

Aug 30, 2024

architectural photography of Circus Circus — Photo by William Fitzgibbon on Unsplash

Hi, we’re delighted to bring you our latest themed edition today featuring 6 brilliant stories inspired by the theme CIRCUS. As always thank you to everyone who sends us their words. We love the different ways the writers have used the same theme to bring us stories of oppression, jealousy, death, escape, love, and hope. We hope you enjoy them too.

Please do leave a comment on the stories to show the writers your appreciation and share them far and wide!

With love,

The Velvet Tigress

Amanda Saint

Aug 30

The circus is a liminal thing. It appears, tent-striped and dazzling, then vanishes into the night. It can seamlessly cross borders. Its red velvet curtains cut …

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A Fathom of Trust

Amanda Saint

Aug 30

All I see is the audience, faces raised towards me. I smile. I swing. My fingertips leave the bar. Defying gravity, I arch through the air. I’m a shimmering bird in flight.

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The Circus Came, and I was a Clown

Amanda Saint

Aug 30

Mum is unsettled by the equipment arriving, so I tell her the circus is coming. She loved the circus, took me there each year it came to town. Even when I was old enough to have…

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Dinnertime at Our House is Like a Circus

Amanda Saint

Aug 30

Dinnertime at Our House is Like a Circus

Mum juggles plates while Dad clowns around. The air is thick with delicious smells and tension as Danny, my older brother, slides into a seat.

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Not That Kind of Circus

Amanda Saint

Aug 30

The lights from the advertising screens are dazzling as you emerge from the gloom of the tube station into the cold December afternoon. Blues, greens, reds and …

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