I Do Not Fear the Submission

By Jenny Klion

Jenny Klion, Big Apple Circus

I’ve been a circus clown, twice, all my life really, and I do not fear a writing submission. 

I’ve toured with traveling shows, in theater, dance, circus, and opera, been on curtain-pull duty for an elephant act, the danger of which cannot be overstated. I do not fear a writing submission. 

I’ve heard from backstage a terrible accident occurring onstage, a rigging failure that caused an aerialist to fall from the top of the tent to the sawd...