Don’t miss this metropolitan fantasy short tale featuring Abby Sinclair in the spellbinding Carniepunk anthology collection, from bestselling author Allison Pang!

Having just give up Julliard, disillusioned fiddler Melanie St. James finds herself as part of several traveling musicians on the way to an OtherFolk carnival. Wanting to break the chains of an eternity of conformity, Melanie throws extreme caution towards the wind and enters a reckless discount, plying her musical skills for the opportunity to win a violin that can open Doors to the CrossRoads. But the competition actually is a lot more than she expected. When the carnival barker makes her an present she can’t refuse, Melanie is definitely pressured to play for the Devil or risk trading her spirit for the thing she retains dearer than existence itself.