I have had affairs that lasted decades and others that lasted for hours. I have loved princesses and peasants. And I suppose they loved me, each in their way.

Have you tried the cinnamon things?” Poppet asks. “They’re rather new. What are they called, Widge?””Fantastically delicious cinnamon things?

Something about the circus stirs their souls, and they ache for it when it is absent.

I suppose there will never be a lack of things to say, of stories to be told and shared.