Phineasbarnum Stories

Phineas Barnum finds a little girl stranded at the train station - 10 years later and her story really begins

"you know I want you, it's not a secret I try to hide. But i can't have you, we're bound to break, and my hands are tied." In which Iris Michaels finds her home within a circus of outcasts and finds herself in a forbidden love. Phillip Carlyle x oc

Barlyle one-shots, imagines, and prompts. Also posted to my Tumblr: barlyletrash

Humans are like water glasses. The water, that most elusive of things, is made of memories--people, events, words--all of them negative. Most glasses are only filled halfway. Some lucky ones only sustain a drop or two. And the most unlucky of us--the Edgar Allen Poes and Vincent Van Goghs--are filled all the way to the top. But what happens, we wonder, when a glass overflows? ... And the circus came crumbling down. (collab fic with @melloneddy on Tumblr/AO3!)