


Ain't that the best news you ever got? Jamie is plunged into the horrific alternate universe that is the centuries-old Pilo Family Circus, a borderline world between hell and earth from which humankind's greatest tragedies have been perpetrated. It stared at him with ungodly boggling eyes, then turned away.this seemingly random incident triggers a nightmarish chain of events as Jamie finds he is being stalked by a trio of gleefully sadistic clowns who deliver a terrifying ultimatum: you have two days to pass your audition. Standing in the glare of the headlights was an apparition dressed in a puffy shirt with a garish flower pattern It wore oversized red shoes, striped pants and white face paint. He arrives to the undergrounds of the Pilo Family Circus -as bizarre and frightening as you can image with all the freaks and misfits you can count -only to learn his apprenticeship will be painful and humiliating, and maybe not even survivable.Jamie's tyres squealed to a halt. Next time the clowns come to visit, Jamie -our victim hero -is zipped into a body bag and taken for a pummeling elevator ride. He goes to the mall, takes off all his clothes, lights some firecrackers, then runs down the hallways with his "frantically wobbling penis" yelling, "it's a bomb! It's a Bomb!" This, of course, concludes with our hero in a "handcuffed walk of shame"(p.48) into custody. Eventually.Ī trifecta of very disturbed clowns "audition" a sucker protag by scaring him into painting his chest with an upsidedown swastika and his back with a smiley face. It seemed to him the world was a carnival, and that we've all got a free ticket. !!!!!SPOILERS!!!!LEAVE!!!!SPOILERS!!!!YOU SHOULDN'T BE HERE ANYWAY!!!SPOILERS!!!!LEAVE!!!!Īnd he knew there are strange places in the world. AWARDS: Aussie's Golden Aurealis & Ditmar Awards.
