{"id":9038,"date":"2022-05-18T13:59:01","date_gmt":"2022-05-18T17:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/?p=9038"},"modified":"2022-05-18T13:59:01","modified_gmt":"2022-05-18T17:59:01","slug":"365e-romantic-short-story-about-two-strangers-a-carny-and-a-young-woman-together-on-a-carnival-ride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/365e-romantic-short-story-about-two-strangers-a-carny-and-a-young-woman-together-on-a-carnival-ride\/","title":{"rendered":"365E: Romantic short story about two strangers: a carny and a young woman together on a carnival ride"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n<p>I think it&#8217;s a paperback book from about 25-30 years ago. I\u2019m sorry I don\u2019t recall title nor author, nor cover.<br>I\u2019ve tried googling what little I remember in nouns, but no luck. It could be a short story<br>anthology or a book of short stories by one writer. As I recall, the carny, a kind of rough guy meets a young woman and takes her on a ride on what we used to call \u2018the wheel of death\u2019 but I don&#8217;t think it was called that in the story. That carnival contraption is usually a huge metal mesh cylinder that people enter through a door, and then line up, standing up, around the edges of the cylinder\/metal cage.<br><br>\u00a0When the machine starts up, the cylinder starts to whirl in a circle, faster and faster until all the people are plastered by centrifugal force to the walls\u2026 then the floor drops out so that people are whirling through space in this cage with no floor beneath them, held up only by centrifugal force.<br><br>How the wheel was actually constructed in story, not sure. But that\u2019s the idea.<br><br>The carny might kiss the young woman while on the ride, not sure, but it was romantic leaning a tidge into eros I think. I&#8217;m sorry, cannot remember any of the other stories in the book. At age 77 now, a lot of memories are softer, but good memories have gotten stronger. One of the blessings of aging sometimes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think it&#8217;s a paperback book from about 25-30 years ago. I\u2019m sorry I don\u2019t recall title nor author, nor cover.I\u2019ve tried googling what little I remember in nouns, but no luck. It could be a short storyanthology or a book of short stories by one writer. As I recall, the carny, a kind of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13,14,19],"tags":[368,346],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9038"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9038"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9039,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9038\/revisions\/9039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}