One Clown Short

Book excerpt: Mandy Maloney needs a job. She's had a successful run of flipping burgers at a popular fast food establishment, but the call to higher aspirations and a disapproving mother have finally forced her to flee to the classifieds. Soon she finds herself accepting an unlikely dream job- sales training at a circus supply company with great pay and great benefits, marred only by an aloof, sexist boss and a series of strange, surreal events. After befriending her "sane" coworkers, Gary and Violet, Mandy begins to find that things are even stranger, and more sinister, than they seem.