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The bright lights give off an obnoxious combination of red, yellow and white glow. A visual overdose is spread across every corner of the travelling carnival like a neon bed-skirt. Kids infest every intersection. Games booths are commanded by charismatic university students over loudspeakers. Carnies are the sheriffs of this lawless little land, when they’reContinue reading “From Nicholas Gagnier: Leonard the Liar Excerpt #2”

Twenty-four years passed before my daughter broached the origins of her given name. I was confident, as most young parents are, the question would have come up much sooner. I thought- as she passed through the annals of adolescence, trying to hide joints in her school bag and dated boys (many of whom were ofContinue reading “From Nicholas Gagnier: Leonard The Liar Excerpt”