Disappointingly a short story that had nothing to do with circuses. With the Circus Tresaulti book still spinning round my head I picked it from the titles on my Kindle believing it to be a novel, but downloaded from Project Gutenberg it turned out to be a circular tale of a humanoid alien trying to convince an author to help him tell people he's from an alternate universe very similar, but not quite the same as our earth. Does the author believe him? He sure does. Can he help to get his story out there? Unlikely. Why? No one will believe him. The author shows the alien his latest story and it's exactly the story the alien had just told him. Sadly this story has not aged well.