Where do you go if there’s nowhere to go? What do you bring with you? (I guess it’s obvious that I’d bring my cat.) What if you ran away from home? As an adult, you might run away from home because you’ve committed a crime, or because a crime was committed against you. It was lighter than this story, which didn’t mean anyone would produce it! But for me, the notion of writing a story very much for adults, based on a thread typically sold to children, that’s an interesting notion. This is the second time I’ve written a story about that-the first one was eighteen years ago-a children’s musical in which a mother runs away from her children to be a disappearing lady. I’ve always been interested especially in adult runaways, which is what this story is about.

The temptation of writing about the circus, specifically, the way it can cover all kinds of things, horror, hilarity, weirdness, freaks, animals, runaways. I picked the story back up, and gave it the ending it always needed.Īs much as it came from a moment of abject misery, it also came from a childhood reading of Bradbury, of course.

I ran away to feed the elephants, to brush the lions, to climb onto the high wire, and I lived. And now, four years later? It really, really didn’t. I guess I believed, at that moment, that this was what was going to happen to me. Back then, all the stories of escape I could think of ended in the protagonist being lost herself, or dying in misery. All I could imagine was a woman in a little house in a woods, a cat, and the feeling that horrible things were on their way. I wanted to write a path: a story about escape, about fleeing the world that everyone else thinks is normal. Thank you! I wrote the first draft of the first half of this story in 2012, while I was in the middle of leaving one life and trying in vain to imagine another. Tell us about the inspiration for the style and story. It invokes poetry and shadows, hints of Ray Bradbury and Ursula K. “See The Unseeable, Know The Unknowable” is a lyrical, lovely story filled with poetry. Series: The Tales of Gorlen Vizenfirthe.Series: From the Lost Travelers’ Tour Guide.People of Colo(u)r Destroy Science Fiction!.

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