1972. The year the circus rolled into town, attracting millions from across the country. Children and adults alike queued
for hours just to gain access to the five-star-rated attraction.
For weeks on end, the circus had been bustling with life from early in the morning to late at night. Selling stuffed toy
after stuffed toy. Children went home happy, mummy's hand in one hand, and candyfloss in the other. Teenagers would hang
around after dark, smoking their cancer sticks and drinking their problems away.
One week passed, and the amount of attention the circus was receiving dwindled, due to the bitter weather. But it gave the
circus owner enough time to bring life to his rides...
267 deaths. 678 injuries. And one happy circus owner.
The circus was forced to close down, but not for long. They moved elsewhere, leaving their destruction and pain behind
them for everyone else to deal with.
|Present Day|
A young journalist, hoping to ascend higher in the ranks of journalism, sets out to find a headline worthy of a promotion.
Whilst stumbling around the city hoping to find something good to find, he keeps seeing the same flyers everywhere. Upon
inspection, he notices that it is a advertisement for a new theme park: Geniessen.
Hoping to do a cover story on it, he starts to dig into the origin of the world Geniessen and anything affiliated with it.
In his findings, he finds an article from 1972, writing about a circus. Upon reading the article, he learns that the
circus was doing good until a week prior to July. The weather had turned harsh and cold and hardly anybody had went.
After the weather had cleaned up, people had returned and had found that the circus had turned dark and cold itself, with
rides killing and injuring people. After that it was forced to close.
With curiosity coursing through his veins, the young journalist sets out on finding out what really happened, but some
things are just meant to be left in the past...
When Jane Madarang's neighbor Natalie kills herself and leaves behind cryptic instructions, it's up to Jane and her classmates to unearth deadly secrets.
*****
Natalie Driscoll is dead.
She threw herself out a window and left her neighbor Jane to unravel their town's darkest secrets. Following Natalie's instructions leads Jane to three other high school students who all have something to hide. The four of them must carry out Natalie's final errand while solving the mysteries written in her diary. But the secrets they unearth may be far more dangerous than what they ever imagined.
Content and/or trigger warning: This story contains scenes of suicide, violence and murder that may be triggering for some readers.
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