The Travelling Circus
By Kelly Lim
“Woah, WOAH!” goes the crowd as they watch a giraffe skating around the circus while trying to balance plates on the tip of his nose. The giraffe gracefully jumps in the air and lands perfectly intact on the ground. The crowd cheers and yells as they throw money at the giraffe. “Thank you ladies and gentleman, that was our skating giraffe Jimmy.” Says the ringmaster.
The crowd cheers again as they expect the next act to come out. They waited for a couple of seconds until it turned into minutes of silence. “What are you doing?!” The ringmaster whisper shouts. “I don’t know!” replies the clown who was supposed to be the next act. “I’m too nervous.” “But John, you practised this act for months now… YOU EVEN PERFORMED THE OTHER DAY IN NEBRASKA!” Said the ringmaster in anger. “Yeah, but we’re in Russia.” Replied John the clown. “Oh my god you’re an idiot, why are you nervous anyway?” Asked the ringmaster. “My wife’s giving birth at China, and I accidentally left her there last week.” Said the clown as he was shaking. “Oh, that’s it?! We’re going to China tomorrow, because we got outstanding reviews there! Now go out there and perform your act.” Said the ringmaster. John the clown decides to be brave and perform his act. He did trip and fall a lot, but the crowd actually thought it was part of the act.
The entire circus crew was travelling to China in their private jet. Everyone was practicing their acts until- “Everyone, we have arrived!” Shouted the ringmaster in excitement, he was quite excited to eat authentic Chinese food. John the clown ran out of the jet to ask for a taxi to take him to the hospital where his wife was in labor. “Well, there he goes.” Says Jimmy in annoyance. The entire circus group agreed as Jimmy the skating giraffe skates away to grab his bags.
“Do you know where my wife Jessica is?” asked John. “Which one? We have hundreds and I can’t name them all out for you.” Replied the receptionist. “My wife!” Said John in anger. The receptionist sighs in annoyment. “Ohhhh, it’s Jessica Rollo-Koster.” Said John. The receptionist told him that his wife was already giving birth at this moment and he is not allowed to barge into the delivery room. John sighed and decided to wait in her room.
It has been nearly an hour, John waited for a while so he decided to take a nap. As soon as John was about to close his eyes. *BANG* The door was slammed open by a hairy man in a women’s hospital gown and some nurses. “John!” Shouted the hairy man in a high pitched voice. “Jessica” shouted John in reply. They embraced each other in hugs. “So where’s that baby, and also how are you able to walk?” Asks John. “Well-” replies Jessica as she gets interrupted by a nurse bringing a strange looking baby with extreme facial hair, extreme back hair, but no hair on the top of his head into the room. John’s face turns from excited to disgusted. “What is that?!” Asks John in a rage. “It’s your child, Mike Rosopht.” Says Jessica. “You named him Mike Rosophtl?! His name is supposed to start with a J, like I don’t know maybe Jenga Blocks.” Says John in anger. “I’m leaving you… and our kid.” John walks out of the room as he slams the door to go back to practicing his act. Jessica just stands there then walks over to look out the window with her son. The nurses decided to give the man *cough* I mean woman some privacy. “I’ve gone through too much in my life, let’s take our lives together Mike Roshopht, nobody understands us anyway.” Says Jessica as he trembles. Jessica looks at her child one last time as he opens the window wide enough for a grown man and a hairy man baby to fit in. He gets on the window ledge with Mike Rosopht in hand… and jumps off. “Hairy men forever!” Screamed Jessica as he fell off the hospital building with Mike Rosopht
John the clown was performing his act later that night along with all his other circus crew members. John was on a unicycle while playing a violin. Suddenly a huge gust of wind came into the enclosed circus. *WHOOSSHH* Everyone was panicked by a mysterious voice. “JOHN, YOU DISOWNED YOUR OWN CHILD AND YOU LEFT YOUR OWN WIFE. I WILL HAUNT YOU FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE UNTIL YOUR DEATH!” It sounded like Jessica. The crowd was afraid and everyone started to run around like wild chickens. The air was swirling around like a tornado. The loud whooshing came to a sudden stop. The gust of air disappeared into the night. It took away a few of the props for the circus acts. Everyone felt relieved after that strange incident. “Hey, where’s John?” Asked the ringmaster feeling a bit worried. It seemed like John the clown disappeared away with that strange talking tornado. The police went on a hunt to look for him for years, his body was found hanging high up in a tree with a giant tree branch going through his body.
