Midget - Stella

She was billed as “Midget Stella,” though she loathed the word with a heat that could melt asphalt. Her real name was Estella Marguerite Finch, and she was twenty-three years old, three feet eleven inches tall, and tired of being a joke with a heartbeat.

Stella looked at the painted horses, their eyes wild and vacant. “They don’t go anywhere.” midget stella

The carnival rolled into town every October, a greasy, glittering promise of escape. For the locals, it was a distraction. For Stella, it was the only mirror she had. She was billed as “Midget Stella,” though she