NonBinary Review Issue #43: Carnival

What does the word “carnival” bring to mind? Outlandishly-dressed people throwing candy and cheap jewelry to waiting crowds from atop parade floats to mark the beginning of Lent? The smell of hot grease and barn animals floating over rigged games and rickety rides? The feeling of excitement that comes from being part of a large crowd, all determined to have fun? However you define it, we want your speculative work about it! Give us poems that make us feel that carnival atmosphere right down to the roots of our hair. Fiction about a fantastical carnival that couldn’t possibly exist on any world that observes our familiar laws of physics. Art that makes us want to step inside and join the revelers!