This week’s Kick-About was a celebration; our 100th edition, which means 100 creative prompts and 100 ‘new works made in a short time’. For my offering, I began with ‘100 latex gloves’ and ended up playing a strange game of ‘dress-up’, inspired in part by Angela Carter’s Nights At The Circus, by Tod Browning’s Freaks (1933), and also thinking about this previous Kick-About response, a short story about a circus and its exotic show folk. At first, I thought Le Mille-Pattes Humain was going to be a rather horrifying creation, but as is often the way with monsters, its humanity and melancholy gives the strongest impression.
What a strange way to pass an afternoon, you might think, mucking about with latex gloves, but what always amazes me is how quickly you can create an entire world out of the most meagre of materials, and how fast the stories come rushing in thereafter.
Red's Kingdom 
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