The Slightly Bruised Glory of Cedar B Hartley

The second funny, touching chapter in the life of Cedar B. Hartley, who plans to be infamous. Cedar’s world turns upside down when her almost-boyfriend, Kite, moves to Albury to join a professional circus.
Once I was a skinny redhead with a dog called Stinky and a lot of things to find out. Then I met Kite. It was Kite who showed me how to be an acrobat, and it was my idea to make a circus with all the others, and because our circus show went so well there was that kiss. A real live kiss. I can’t say straight up ‘I’m in love with Kite’, but I am something. Then one day at rehearsal, a look went between us, a look that seemed to thud out of Kite’s heart. That’s when the terrible, terrible thing happened. I’d better tell you the whole story …