Moss-haired Girl ― The Confessions of a Circus Performer

Fiction. Winner of the 3-Day Novel Contest. Joshua Chapman Green is searching...searching for answers. He is combing through boxes in the attic of his recently deceased mother's home and uncovering childhood memories, mysterious letters, and perplexing photos of people he does not know. They appear to be circus performers, members of a travelling freak show, or Victorian-era sideshow performers. Then he finds a crumbling copy ofMoss-Haired Girl: Confessions of a Circus Performer by Zara Zalinzi...the clasp falls away, and the pages open revealing a family story that may or may not be true. In this ambitious novella, R.H. Slansky weaves a complex narrative about the very nature of narrative: it is an annotated re-issue of a fictional autobiography that casts a questioning eye on the reliability of family lore.