Friday, 9 April 2010

Fiction Friday #6

This story has been taken down now that the piece has been submitted to a journal!
Posted by Icy Sedgwick at 1:02 pm
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8 comments:

Sam said...

Clowns? What is it about clowns?! Really enjoyed this circus murder tale.

9 April 2010 at 13:38
Sulci Collective said...

Anyone who finds clowns funny deserves for their heart to go bang!

" there's no story, just some poor guy who didn't live to see the tightrope walkers," said the police officer" - this is a great line, so dismissive. I love it.

Well done.

marc nash

9 April 2010 at 13:38
Marisa Birns said...

Well, sometimes clowns are so bizarrely evil-looking that I can imagine being scared to death. Just ask Stephen King!

Am impressed how you took that bare bones prompt and wrote such a very good tale.

9 April 2010 at 13:52
Anonymous said...

Can't sleep. Clowns will eat me.
Loved the story. Very neat and tidy with dashes of dark humour. And I also loved the line about not living to see the tightrope walkers. Winner!
Adam B

9 April 2010 at 14:07
Icy Sedgwick said...

I am genuinely scared of clowns. There's just something so WRONG about them. And I love tightrope walkers (especially Blondin). Can't think why else you'd go to a circus!!

Glad everyone liked it. :-)

9 April 2010 at 15:24
Walt said...

I thought this was excellent. The story was tight and didn't include any fluff that would have drawn it out. Especially like the line from the police officer about the tightrope act.

9 April 2010 at 15:45
Aislinn O'Connor said...

LOL - that has to be the most original "murder" weapon ever! Well, at least Ivan died happy... :-)

9 April 2010 at 16:22
Benjamin Solah said...

Totally got a phobia of clowns myself, especially in the night. Great piece.

10 April 2010 at 01:49

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