{"quotes":[{"text":"But this dagger – this was her first. Her favorite. The same one that had sliced off the boy’s toe on the beach and sent it rolling through the sand.","author":"Leslie Parry","tags":["carnivals","family","sideshows"],"id":74369,"author_id":"Leslie+Parry"},{"text":"A tired man lay down his headin a dusty room so dim,and for so long his wife did shakeand yell to waken him.Meanwhile his thoughts, his dreams, did stirof sandy, red bullfights,of powder-blasts in the airand carnival delights.Yet still his wife was in despairin a dusty room so dim,for she knew death was a whorenot far from tempting him.","author":"Roman Payne","tags":["bull-fighters","bull-fights","bulls","carnaval","carnival","carnivals","death","death-dream","despair","dreaming","dying","dying-at-home","fireworks","husband-and-wife","husband-and-wife-relationship","poetry","torredor","whore","whores"],"id":154838,"author_id":"Roman+Payne"},{"text":"She had seen it done. Wherever they glittered in the afterlife – flying among the high rafters of heaven, swimming with her mother in an undersea cave – she hoped the tigers had known it, and roared.","author":"Leslie Parry","tags":["carnivals","family","sideshows"],"id":326440,"author_id":"Leslie+Parry"},{"text":"When your mama was the geek, my dreamlets,' Papa would say, 'she made the nipping off of noggins such a crystal mystery that the hens themselves yearned toward her, waltzing around her, hypnotized with longing.","author":"Katherine Dunn","tags":["carnivals","chicken","family","first-sentence","freaks"],"id":443959,"author_id":"Katherine+Dunn"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":4,"pages":1}}