The crowd laughed at the clown with the painted mouth with thick red lines and a clown’s smile that reached to the ears. A dazzling yellow pinwheel that spun around was being held by the clown. The clown tossed it into the air and let it spin to show its color. It made a cheerful chime as it spun off into the sky. The children cheered! It was ingeniously built by a nuclear physicist after years of developing the Atomic bomb.
Was the clown hiding in shame as a circus clown who loved laughter more than destruction? Or will the laughter turn deadly when the real anarchists steps off the merry-go-round from behind the masquerade?
D.M.Sorlie is the author of the Sue Lee Mysteries an
historical fiction series following a World War Two timeline.
Now the series has extended into the postwar years to discover looted art for the museum worldwide.
The stories have been written during his extensive travels with his wonderful wife and critic.
It’s intriguing to write in a Paris apartment, Harry’s bar in Rome, or plot a murder while in New Zealand about the search for Amelia Earhart.