Broken People
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The Nightingale Circus had left town.
Sad to part with The Nightingale Circus crew?
Read their stories about how they came to the circus and why they stayed in
The Nightingale Circus
Don’t be shy and come inside! The Nightingale is waiting to take flight!
Welcome to The Nightingale Circus! Listen to the singer with an enchanting voice. Watch the knife throwers who are also prosthetic builders. Here is a telecharger on the run and a ballerina with no lungs. There is a broken pole dancer and an Asian bot. You’ll be amazed by a regular girl who becomes exquisite and frightening at the same time.
They’re better known as the famous Nightingale, the Blade Masters, the Magician, the Swan, the Firebird, the Rocket Girl, and the Golden Lady.
They are all waiting to tell you their story about how they came to the circus and why they stayed.
This is a companion short story collection to Broken People.
Acknowledgements
After I finished writing The Impaler Legacy series, I felt it was time to return to my first love, science fiction. When I visited Bratislava a few years ago, I very much enjoyed the old city, and I wanted to write a story that had the action taking place there. I had this image of a man standing in the window of an old building, watching a woman in a building across the street. I wondered what he was doing there so, between other projects, I started plotting on and off.
It felt like a cool idea, so I decided to make it my NaNo project. Now, my idea of NaNo is a bit different than what everyone else is doing. When I’m working on a story, I usually write 1,000 words per day, except for the weekends. For NaNo, I wrote during the weekends, too. It was tough, but at the end of November, I had 30,000 words written … and I was only half-way into the story. What initially had been planned to be only a novella had turned into a novel.
For a long time, the story was called “With a Flick of the Wrist”, like Queen’s song, which could serve as soundtrack. However, in the end, it became clear the story wasn’t about a trick but about the people in it. Writing each individual story felt like the next natural step, so if you fell in love with Broken People and don’t want to let go of them just yet, you might want to check out The Nightingale Circus. It’s a short story collection revealing how the main characters came to be in the circus and why they stayed.
As usual, many thanks go to my critique partners, Boringname, Jkang, Miki, Larrue, Pianoal, Pranabow, Rellrod, Ros, Sarahbeth, Xc0000005, my editor, Kim Young, and my illustrator, Cristina Birtea.
Thank you to my readers and reviewers, too. If you got this far, please take the time to leave a review on Amazon and Goodreads to show your support. I will be forever grateful.
And let’s not forget Mom, Dad, little brother, grandma, and the cat.
All right, see you in the next book!
About the Author
Award-winning writer Ioana Visan has always dreamed about reaching the stars, but since she can’t, she writes about it.
After fighting the apocalypse aftermath in “Human Instincts”, she played with shapeshifters in “Blue Moon Café Series: Where Shifters Meet for Drinks”, she dealt with vampires in “The Impaler Legacy” series, and then she designed prosthetics in “Broken People” before tackling longer works like a fantasy trilogy and a science fiction series.
Aside from publishing short stories in various Romanian magazines and anthologies, she published a Romanian short story collection “Efectul de nautil” and the Romanian edition of “Human Instincts”.
She received the Encouragement Award from The European Science Fiction Society at Eurocon 2013.
For more information, go to
http://www.ioanavisan.tk
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Books by Ioana Visan
ENGLISH BOOKS
Human Instincts
Blue Moon Café Series:
Where Shifters Meet for Drinks
The Impaler Legacy Series:
The Impaler’s Revenge
Sweet Surrender
A Victory that Counts
Casualties of War
Order Restored
The Third Wheel
The Impaler Legacy Omnibus
Broken People Series:
The Nightingale Circus
Broken People
ROMANIAN BOOKS
Efectul de nautil
Instincte umane
ROMANIAN ANTHOLOGIES
Dansînd pe Marte şi alte povestiri fantastice
Steampunk: A doua revoluţie
Venus – povestiri erotice science fiction
Cele 1001 de scorneli ale Moşului SF
Zombii: Cartea morţilor vii
Călătorii în timp. Antologie de povestiri SF
Ferestrele timpului. Antologie de ficţiuni speculative
Bumerangul lui Zeeler. Antologie Gazeta SF 2014
Best of Mystery & Horror #1 - Revista de suspans
Xenox. Contact între civilizaţii
www.ioanavisan.tk