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Come inside and take a seat the show is about to beginOutside any city still standing the Mechanical Circus Tresaulti sets up its tents Crowds pack the benches to gawk at the brass-and-copper troupe and their impossible feats Ayar the Strong Man the acrobatic Grimaldi Brothers fearless Elena and her aerialists who perform on living trapezes War is everywhere but while the Circus is performing the world is magicThat magic is no accident Boss builds her circus from the bones out molding a mechanical company that will survive the unforgiving landscape But even a careful ringmaster can make mistakesTwo of Tresaultis performers are entangled in a secret standoff that threatens to tear the circus apart just as the war lands on their doorstep Now the Circus must fight a war on two fronts one from the outside and a more dangerous one from within.
About the Author
Genevieve Valentine's fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Clarkesworld, Strange Horizons, Journal of Mythic Arts, Fantasy Magazine, and Apex, and in the anthologies Federations, The Way of the Wizard, Running with the Pack, Teeth, and more. Her nonfiction has appeared in Lightspeed, Weird Tales, Tor.com, and Fantasy Magazine.Her first novel, Mechanique: A Tale of the Circus Tresaulti, is forthcoming from Prime Books. Her appetite for bad movies is insatiable, a tragedy she tracks on her blog at genevievevalentine.com. She is currently working on a formula to evaluate the awfulness of any given film, a scale that will be measured in Julians to honor Julian Sands, who has bravely uttered some of the worst lines ever filmed,in some of the worst wigs ever made.
