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    The End of the Circus
    The End of the Circus
    The End of the Circus
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    The End of the Circus

    By Bernard Fancher

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    “I got you a rum and coke,” he said, “without the rum.”

    She smiled again as her fingers enclosed the glass and he noticed for the first time her nails, long and perfectly rounded, the color of dark twilight sparkling with starlets.

    “Oh that’s okay,” she said, still smiling. “I don’t care as long as it’s cold and carbonated, and non-alcoholic.”

    She lifted the glass and he lifted the bottle and for a moment they watched each other drinking. He noticed the curl of hair dropping down like a long and delicate spring brushing each cheek. And then he noticed her darkly kohled eyes.

    “Would you like to play some pool?” He asked the question just to say something, and disengaged his eyes from her gaze to look over her left shoulder where the table stood. The triangle rack lay roughly centered upon a lit green velvet field next to the unmarked white ball.
    “I don’t know,” she said. “How good are you?”

    “I’m okay.”

    “Better than me, then; I’m not good at all.”

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBernard Fancher
    Release dateMar 31, 2011
    ISBN9781458055910
    The End of the Circus
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    Bernard Fancher

    I live on a small and mostly defunct farm in western New York, where the events of a typical day include writing and walking my dogs--items not necessarily listed in order of priority. (At least not from the dogs' point of view.)

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      The End of the Circus - Bernard Fancher

      The End of the Circus

      by

      Bernard Fancher

      Smashwords Edition

      Copyright 2011 Bernard Fancher

      All Rights Reserved

      The story that follows is fiction.

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      The End of the Circus

      The alkaline smell of the screen assaulted his nose, triggering a tingling, watering reaction at the base of his tongue until he pushed up the screen, leaving only the base odor of old rain-plastered dust in the window well.

      His right hand maintained a grip on the sill as he backed out on the ledge. Carefully pivoting on the ball of his left foot, he withdrew his right leg from the window. And then he was free, standing uncertainly, still holding onto the sill while his left cheek pressed to the clapboards from which even after the heat of the day

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