This story is a retelling of Hades and Persephone for The Mythic Dream collection. Our protagonist lives in a carnival, and never gets to leave--her mother does it to protect her. Turns out she is being protected from the knowledge that she is dead--hit by a truck as a little girl. Her mother has trapped her ghost, which has grown up as a normal and substantial girl to everyone in the carnival--they can't even tell she is dead. But as all young people do, she has to leave. And find kindred spirits.
It's a good story, enjoyable and sad, but nothing deeper than that for me.
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