John Turner has always dreamed of running away with the circus but he never expected that dream to become a reality. I hope you enjoy this historical fiction short story.

Genre categories: Fiction, historical fiction, suspense, coming-of-age.

Discover more of Jamie's writing at: https://jamie-gregory.com/

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The following sound effects were downloaded via https://freesound.org/. Fading and loudness normalization effects were applied to these sound effects which are licensed under various Creative Commons Attribution licenses.

• Mechanical street organ by RTB45
• Crowd cheer by day-garwood
• Zoo animal sounds by freesound
• Baby crying by mariiao2
• Elephant trumpeting by vataaa
• Small crowd gasping by dreamstobecome
• Crowd in panic by IENBA
• Horse whinny by foxen10
• Cheering clapping crowd by AlaskaRobotics

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