by S.M. Fernand
May Day, 1970… Annabelle Cory—a comely nineteen-year-old, disheartened with her West Virginia coal-town life—meets Walt Ryder, who runs a game in a traveling carnival and wins a date with her after the show closes. Abandoning all caution for her shot at adventure and romance, she goes with Walt to his hotel bed, and the next night leaves home with his carnival.
Narrating her tale of the following week, Annabelle’s voice is laced with mountain dialect and carnival jargon, yet woven with language begotten from her love of reading. Her love for Walt takes wing amid blind lust, spiraling in and out of her heart as she follows him into the razzle-dazzle world of McCain’s Magic Midway.
Appalachian Carnival tells of a time when showmen were in cahoots with the local law, a time when psychedelics were taken for trips inward. S.M.Fernand, in each chapter/day, alludes to aspects of a Tarot card’s archetypal symbolism—the story shape-shifting to allegory.
Annabelle, seeking her liberation amid a caravan of carnies, rolls the dice to win a ride on the wheel of fortune, and finds herself awakening within the soul of all.
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