Brian S Rizzo

Big Top Execution (The Ringmaster Saga, #1) (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Marcus Reed has been walking the empty streets for eight months, carrying guilt that therapy can't touch. When Emma Catherine Cross died in the car accident he survived, Marcus lost more than his girlfriend-he lost his ability to believe that healing was possible. Conventional therapy, medication, and well-meaning friends offer nothing but performance of recovery, empty gestures toward a wholeness that feels forever out of reach.

Then Marcus discovers online forums speaking in riddles about a circus that appears only to those who truly need it. Following cryptic instructions to Century Mall's abandoned parking lot, Marcus finds something impossible: a tent where pain matters, where suffering is acknowledged rather than medicated away, where broken people gather to witness each other's wounds.

The Ringmaster offers what no therapist can-transformation through authentic suffering rather than false healing. But as Marcus descends deeper into the circus's psychological depths, he discovers that this place demands a different kind of payment. In exchange for witnessing his pain, the circus wants to transform him into performance itself.

Through chambers of mirrors and marionette strings, painted faces and willing dissolution, Marcus must choose between the comfortable numbness of his old life and the terrible authenticity of becoming someone-or something-else entirely. In a world where everyone performs recovery, the circus offers the seductive possibility of never having to pretend to be whole again.

But some transformations can't be undone, and some performances become permanent. Marcus will learn that the line between healing and destruction is often nothing more than a matter of perspective-and that sometimes, the most honest thing you can do is stop pretending to be human.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Brian S Rizzo
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. August 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798231996155
• Artikelnr.: 75293782

Autorenporträt

Brian S. Rizzo is a writer exploring the intersection of trauma, transformation, and the stories we tell ourselves to survive. His work examines how individuals and communities navigate the complex territory between authentic healing and performed recovery, often finding that the most profound truths emerge from the courage to witness suffering rather than simply escape it. ​​​​​​​The Ringmaster Saga represents his debut series of psychological horror novellas, utilizing the metaphor of a supernatural circus to explore how trauma affects individuals and communities, and how the line between healing and manipulation is often far thinner than we'd like to believe. The series reflects his interest in stories that offer no easy answers but instead create spaces where readers can confront difficult questions about pain, meaning, and the possibility of genuine transformation. ​​​​​​​ He believes that the most potent art emerges from the willingness to transform our deepest wounds into something beautiful enough to share, honest enough to matter, and complex sufficient to honor the full spectrum of human experience.