Ladies and Gentlemen, step right up.... Witness alarming and amusing antics! Experience irresistible wonder and dread! All on display in Sidney Thompson's stupendous debut collection, Sideshow.
Showcased herein are characters from the unexpected corners of the modern South--a stage where the urban and the rural, the cultured and the unrefined, privileged and poor, black and white all perform side by side. An airbrush artist learns to counterfeit twenty-dollar bills in a scheme to prove to his estranged wife that he is a genuine artiste; a teenage boy becomes a peeping tom in order to discover the true reasons for his parents' divorce; a father gives his son a classical lesson in logic and revenge by taking him to murder their next-door neighbor; the manager of an apartment complex is caught in a bizarre love triangle with a gorgeous new female tenant and her bedridden seven-hundred-pound husband. This menagerie of misfits serves as a reminder of how freakish we can become when our lives lack truth or love, or when we suddenly discover it.
Includes the following stories:
"The Man Who Never Dies"
"The Floater"
"The Voyeur"
"The Chameleon"
"The Romanticist and the Classicist"
"The Counterfeiter"
"Ernest, the Bicyclist"
"The Gatherer"
"The Husbands"
"The Aristotelian"
