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Elena, a trapeze artist, flees the circus on a cold and misty night. Will she make it out of the evil Ring-Master’s clutches?

Original Artwork: Les docks de Cardiff(1894) by Lionel Walden

I wrote this short story as an entry in the Halloween Horror Content, a short, written story contest hosted on the creator platform, StoryFire, and was judged by user, RyanoRiot. It won first place and a modest sum of StoryFire’s in-app currency, Blaze.

This inspiration for a story like this was actually a dream I had. It was bizarre and abstract, but I remember that there was a train that ran on tracks covered in water, a set of lover acrobats, and something sinister on the horizon.

In “The Accordion Train,” I tried to capture some of that feeling, even if the world isn’t as enigmatical as the dream was. The main character, Elena, is pushing herself to move on to greener pastures, to a life of freedom, and she just wants her friend and confidant, Jac, to go with her. But there are other quirky and mystifying characters who live and perform with the circus, including the uncanny Accordionist, who remains ever-close to the boss, the Ringmaster.

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