Carnival Thinking

Back at the Complaints Department: Laurie’s life feels meaningless.

Every time she grasps at meaning, every time she tries to decide what her life should be about, meaning evaporates. Hope is like an hourglass and the sand keeps ticking through.

Late one night, Laurie pushes her complaint through the Complaints Department letterbox and keeps hoping.

Laurie doesn’t know what she was expecting, but it wasn’t Sadie, the young, annoyingly effervescent woman who takes her by the arm and leads her into the carnival, challenging everything Laurie thought she knew to be real...