Meat for Tea, The Valley Review, Vol. 19, Issue 4 publishes, Miracles of the Circus

      Miracles of the Circus , one of my recurring circus flash fictions with recurring characters made it's way into, Meat for Tea, The Valley Review, Vol. 19, Issue 4.  

     So, about Miracles of the Circus. Three new characters, high-wire pair Sonny and Cecilia, and Dr. Hugh Johnson are introduced. Old favorites, Doc Snickens, still hawking his "Miracle Cure" (which is really whisky), Wolfboy, and Maggie, the girl with no arms or legs come back in their usual roles. 

    In  Miracles of the Circus, marital infidelity between the couple and Dr. Johnson, along with jealousy by Wolfboy and Maggie produce the conflict. Incidentally, this was written way before the scandal pictured below.  In the world of Doc Snickens' circus, there is no internet, so what happened between Sonny, Cecilia, and Dr. Johnson stayed in-house. 

  Other Contributors:

Doug Anderson, Magda Bartkowska, Chris Bodily, Jacob Chapman, Harry Coe, Candace Curran, Christine Gay Dutton, Jeffrey Feingold, Scott Ferry, C. Desirée Finley, Diane Funston, Timothy Gager, Michael Favala Goldman, Carole Greenfield, Jeanne Griggs, John Guzlowski, Richard Wayne Horton, Matt Jasper, Stan Kempton, David Lawton, Christopher Locke, Pia Long, LindaAnn LoSchavio, Jeremy Macomber-Dubs, Dave Madeloni, Laura Maffei, Kim Malinowski, Dana Henry Martin, Joseph F Neri, Camille Newsom, Pamela Parker, Robert Peate, Andre F. Peltier, Yunier Ramirez, Charles Rammelkamp, Margaret Sáraco, Jacqulyn Seyferth, Andrew Shelffo, David Solheim, Susanna Solomon, Bobby Sorensen, Peter Tacy, Tommy Twilite, Elaine Verdill, Michael Washburn, Jeff Weddle, Ron Whitehead, Jim Whitten, Ren Wilding, Francine Witte, J. Andrew World, John Yamrus, Gerald Yelle, Frank Zahn

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     There are plenty of stories of mine, featuring the world of Snickens and the circus, if you want to read them, but you probably can't. On-line journals go off-line, all the time and many of the tales of Snickens, Maggie, and Wolfboy died along with them. 

     One of my favorites, The Soul Must Go On (2011)  uses the afterlife with the circus, and it's only on-line because I posted it post-mortem.

     Snickens "Miracle Cure", but not he, appears in Historic Men Sitting By a Fire. (2023) 

     Doc Snickens also appears in Vex, (2011) as a mad dentist, not as a circus Ring Leader.