Rebirth Of The Big Top
2013; University of Iowa; Volume: 43; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.17077/0021-065x.7374
ISSN2330-0361
Autores ResumoMiranda the Elephant Girl was the first of them.Trevor hired her to work concessions on Fridays and alternate Wednesdays."i cannot cook, and i don't do windows," she'd joked in halting English."Anything else, i'm your girl."Trevor guessed she was pushing forty.She wore a pair of cut-off dungarees and a half-shirt, making no attempt to hide her condition.From a distance, the skin of her arms, legs, and torso looked filthy, or like the spotted pelt of a jaguar.Close up, rough, gray scales leapt into focus.Trevor perched on the edge of his battered desk, watching her stare down the box fan that circulated stifling air through his office, words like armored and stegosaurus and parched scuttling through his brain.The skin of her back resembled a relief map of a locale he'd never imagined.Gill Nathan's World Famous Carnival and Sideshow had been touring the Southeast when an aneurism erupted in Gill Nathan's brain, killing him, stranding his employees outside Atlanta.Trapeze artists and lion tamers.Strongmen and acrobats.Bareback riders and clowns.A whole slew of human oddities."i cannot tell you how much appreciation i feel," Miranda said as Trevor showed her how to load and operate the popcorn popper, how to change the soda syrup and deal with the sticky drawer on the cash register."Most of us have never known any other life.it would be nice if you could hire more of my colleagues."But no one came to the drive-in.Trevor couldn't even afford the Elephant Girl.He wasn't sure why he'd hired her in the first place.Cassie hadn't had the strength to see it through.Trevor had read as much in a note she'd affixed to the white door of the Frigidaire on a Monday morning in April.Joshua had just turned twelve.When Trevor touched the sleeping boy's shoulder, Josh's sunken blue eyes snapped open."She's gone?" Trevor nodded.Josh struggled to a seated position."Where do you think she'll go?" "California?it's where all the beautiful people end up."
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