Thaisa Frank's sixth book, Enchantment, a collection of short stories and flash (Counterpoint) was chosen for Best Books of 2012 by the San Francisco Chronicle. Her flash has been widely anthologized, most recently in Micro-Fiction (Norton) and Short Fiction (Bloomsbury). She is a member of The Writers Grotto.
I’m in Flamineo’s trailer when we hear the ringmaster yelling that the fire-eater left to marry his high school sweetheart. We’re in bed, pretending I’m a stranger in the audience and Flamineo’s guessing my...