{"product_id":"2940046407358","title":"Job Hazards","description":"\u003cp\u003eMilbrodt's stories probe the impact of job choices on the lives of a love-lorn circus clown, a racecar driver\/pole dancer, a retired sideshow fat lady and her “skeleton man” friend, a 60-year-old, cliff-jumping caregiver, and two shopping mall security guards who are single parents.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom “Job Hazards”:\u003cbr\u003e“All of us in the circus were there because we needed to be watched, because we craved that treacherous moment in the limelight. She worked with a net for safety. I wouldn’t have asked her to do without one, but we all knew people wanted to see the real danger: if she’d miss the bar. They were waiting for me to make them laugh. They were waiting for her to die.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom “Fat Lady to Marry Skeleton Man: Tickets 25 Cents”:\u003cbr\u003e“I don't know if we were blessed or cursed by genetics. We love our bodies, they earned us a living for many years, but others feel they are acceptable only in a sideshow. Yet where did they expect sideshow performers to go? We can't evaporate, though Errol might come close.”\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wordrunner eChapbooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47165722231024,"sku":"2940046407358","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940046407358_p0.jpg?v=1763691496","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940046407358","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}