"Well, yesterday I went to the circus here and let the guy throw knives at me," Stephens said nonchalantly, as is her way, after her opening win of the 2015 season. "But they didn't hit me of course.

the Armless Knife Thrower, whose obsession with his target, Joan, drives him over the edge. But nothing is what it seems in this freak show of dreams. The Strongman, the Dwarf, the Circus Master ...