Gypsies at the Carnival
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“My ladies, the crystal first. The crystal shows you in a corner house. A white gingerbread house with a long sunning porch. It has a marvelous colored window at the top of the stairs. I see your mother, she looks much like you and she pointed to Dori. She is very sad sometimes, but your Grandmother with the dark snappy eyes and sharp tongue protects her.” They bumped heads fascinated at the reality of what she was telling them, searching within the ball to find their Mother there. Dori said incredulously—“But how do you know? I don’t see my mother in the ball. I don’t see anything in it.” “No, you don’t see her, but I have special powers. I see her.” Before she thought, Margarite, said defiantly, “That is ridiculous, you know of my mother some other way, but not from looking in this glass ball. You don’t have special powers. It’s only a trick, like magic.” “Oh,” said the mask, “You have a tongue like your Grandmother’s. You don’t believe in special powers.”
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Gypsies At The Carnival
Gypsies At The Carnival struggled for a long while to come into existence. It began with the germ of a re-told incident in the author’s hometown. Approaching a strange digging from many perspectives and numerous plot possibilities, it finally came together in the life of a thirteen year old. Margarite emerges from her safe, comfortable proper, nurturing ginger-bread house of 1912 to find herself a Gypsy captive.
The discovery, the shock of ones true identity, the confrontation of cultures presents a timeless situation. Margarite can hardly believe the physical, emotional harshness, the explicit outcries of the Gypsy camp. She is the center of conflict. Recognizing she is on her own, she rises to the challenge, takes her life, her destiny in her own hands. A, “Rights of Passage”, experience.
Joan M. SteeleAbout the Author
Joan M. Steele, born 1932, residing in her home state of Washington received her BA degree in Education in 1959, holds MA equivalent credits in English-Literature (1984). She taught grade-school for sixteen years and has been employed as a Secondary Substitute Teacher for the last ten years. She has been writing Poetry and Short-Stories since childhood and is a dedicated bookworm. She published poetry in Palamar Anthologies (1970’s) and Sparrow Grass Poetry Forum volumes (1993-1999) In 1995 under the pen name, “Meredith”, she self-published: Calling (a novelette), Grama Tell Me a Story (folklore), and a Short-Story volume. You’ll appreciate, enjoy this authors conception of ‘growing-up’ – recognizing your particular situation, predicament, identity stance. She doesn’t hold it against you if it comes far sooner than adulthood. She respects your mind! She understands your fierce desire to do it on your own – she felt the same at twelve. Here, your author gives you a chance to take a fantasy walk in a peer trap and come out a Winner! This story could help point the way to ‘growing-up’, in a constructive, positive manner – take hold in your world. She believes God can be with you – come through you.