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The Ninth Carnival [Contest Entry]

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The Aurum Carnival returns every year, bringing with it, wonder, magic, and, for Beatrice, mystery.

Appearing only on New Year's Eve, the carnival boasts booths, fortune tellers, trapeze artists, magicians and nine years of disappearances. Each year a child goes missing by the end of the night. Each year it's shrugged off as typical for the kind of event. That's simply what happens to children too reckless after dark.

Except for Beatrice, who on the first year, lost her best friend to the Aurum Carnival. Now she's forced to save her younger sister from the same fate-- will she find her before the Carnival disappears?

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Short story following the prompt: It's New Year's Eve and this year things will change.

A New Year's carnival is in town and there's something's not quite right about it. People are disappearing and no-one is noticing. No-one except you...

*Prompt Winner in the Fantasy Prompt Category*All Rights Reserved

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