Joe Hill: Twittering From the Circus of the Dead

TYME2WASTECreepy stuff. Here’s Eric. His zombie makeup is really good. Most of the zombies are black and rotted, but he looks like fresh kill.

9:03 PM – 2 Mar from Tweetie

TYME2WASTEStill got the hatchet in the neck. That looks totally fake.

9:03 PM – 2 Mar from Tweetie

TYME2WASTEHe’s not very good at being a zombie. He isn’t even trying to walk slow. He’s really going after the ringmistress.

9:04 PM – 2 Mar from Tweetie

TYME2WASTEoh shit I hope that’s part of the show. He just knocked her down. Oh Eric Eric Eric. She hit the dirt really really hard.

9:05 PM – 2 Mar from Tweetie

TYME2WASTEThey’re eating her like they ate the lion. Eric is playing with guts. He’s so gross. He’s going totally Method.

9:07 PM – 2 Mar from Tweetie

TYME2WASTEGymnastics now. They’re making a human pyramid. Or maybe I should say an INhuman pyramid. They’re surprisingly good at it. For zombies.

9:10 PM – 2 Mar from Tweetie

TYME2WASTEEric is climbing the pyramid like he knows what he’s doing. I wonder if they gave him backstage training or

9:11 PM – 2 Mar from Tweetie

TYME2WASTEHe’s up high enough to grab the wall around the ring. He’s snarling at someone in the front row, just a couple feet from here. Wait

9:13 PM – 2 Mar from Tweetie

TYME2WASTEno lights fuck thta was stupid whyd they put out the

9:14 PM – 2 Mar from Tweetie

TYME2WASTEsomeones screaming

9:15 PM – 2 Mar from Tweetie

TYME2WASTEthis is really dangerous its so dark and lots of people are screaming and getting up. im mad now you don’t do this to people you don’t

9:18 PM – 2 Mar from Tweetie

TYME2WASTEwe need help we areacv

9:32 PM – 2 Mar from Tweetie

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9:32 PM – 2 Mar from Tweetie

TYME2WASTEI cant say anything theyll hear. were beinb ver y qiuet wevegot a plas

10:17 PM – 2 Mar from Tweetie

TYME2WASTEwere off i70 mom says it was exit 331 but we drove a long way the last town we saw was called ucmba

10:19 PM – 2 Mar from Tweetie

TYME2WASTEcumba

10:19 PM – 2 Mar from Tweetie

TYME2WASTEthe people in the stands were all dead except for us and a few others and they were roped together tethered

10:20 PM – 2 Mar from Tweetie

TYME2WASTEplease someone send help call UT state police not making this up

10:22 PM – 2 Mar from Tweetie

TYME2WASTE@caseinSD lease help you know me you know I wouldnt isnta joke

10:23 PM – 2 Mar from Tweetie

TYME2WASTEhave to be quiet so I can’t call got the ringer is turned off

10:24 PM – 2 Mar from Tweetie

TYME2WASTEAZ state police mom says its arizona not UT our van is a white econlein

10:27 PM – 2 Mar from Tweetie

TYME2WASTEits quiet less screaming now less growling

10:50 PM – 2 Mar from Tweetie

TYME2WASTEtheyre dragging people into piles

10:56 PM – 2 Mar from Tweetie

TYME2WASTEeating theyre eating them

11:09 PM – 2 Mar from Tweetie

TYME2WASTEthe man who got hit by the shoe earlier walked by but he isn’t like he was he hes dead now

11:11 PM – 2 Mar from Tweetie

TYME2WASTEjust mom and me i love my mom shes so brave i love her so much so much i never ment it none of the bad things not one i am with her i am

11:37 PM – 2 Mar from Tweetie

TYME2WASTEimso csared

11:39 PM – 2 Mar from Tweetie

TYME2WASTEtheyresearching to see if anyone is left with flashlights the men in hazmat soups i say go out mom says no

11:41 PM – 2 Mar from Tweetie

TYME2WASTEwere here were waiting for help please forward this to everyone on twitter this is true not an internet prank believe believe believe pleves

12:03 AM – 3 Mar from Tweetie

TYME2WASTEohgod it was dad went by mom sat up and said his name and mom and dad and mom and dad

12:09 AM – 3 Mar from Tweetie

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12:13 AM – 3 Mar from Tweetie

TYME2WASTE/’/.

12:13 AM – 3 Mar from Tweetie

TYME2WASTEWere you SCARED by this TWITTER FEED???!?!?

9:17 AM – 3 Mar from Tweetie

TYME2WASTEThe FEAR–and THE FUN–is only just BEGINNING!

9:20 AM – 3 Mar from Tweetie

TYME2WASTE“THE CIRCUS OF THE DEAD” featuring our newest RINGMISTRESS the SEXY & DARING BLAKE THE BLACKHEARTED.

9:22AM – 3 Mar from Tweetie

TYME2WASTEWatch as our newest QUEEN OF THE TRAPEEZE introduces our PERVERSE & PERNICIOUS performers . . .

9:23 AM – 3 Mar from Tweetie

TYME2WASTE. . . while DANGLING FROM A ROPE ABOVE THE RAVENOUS DEAD!

9:23 AM – 3 Mar from Tweetie

TYME2WASTEA CIRCUS so SHOCKING it makes THE JIM ROSE CIRCUS look like THE MUPPET SHOW!

9:25 AM – 3 Mar from Tweetie

TYME2WASTENow touring with stops in ALL CORNERS OF THE COUNTRY!

9:26 AM – 3 Mar from Tweetie

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9:28 AM – 3 Mar from Tweetie

TYME2WASTESTAY CONNECTED OR YOU DON’T KNOW WHAT YOU’LL MISS!

9:30 AM – 3 Mar from Tweetie

TYME2WASTE“THE CIRCUS OF THE DEAD” . . . Where YOU are the concessions! Other circuses promise DEATH-DEFYING THRILLS!

9:31 AM – 3 Mar from Tweetie

TYME2WASTEBUT ONLY WE DELIVER! (Tix to be purchased at box office day of show. No refunds. Cash only. Minors must be accompanied by adult.)

9:31 AM – 3 Mar from Tweetie

An Excerpt from NOS4A2

Nurse Thornton dropped into the long-term-care ward a little before eight with a hot bag of blood for Charlie Manx.

She was coasting on autopilot, her thoughts not on her work. She had finally made up her mind to buy her son, Josiah, the Nintendo DS he wanted, and was calculating whether she could get to Toys “R” Us after her shift, before they closed.

She had been resisting the impulse for a few weeks, on philosophical grounds. She didn’t really care if all his friends had one. She just didn’t like the idea of those handheld video-game systems that the kids carried with them everywhere. Ellen Thornton resented the way little boys disappeared into the glowing screen, ditching the real world for some province of the imagination where fun replaced thought and inventing creative new kills was an art form. She had fantasized having a child who would love books and play Scrabble and want to go on snowshoeing expeditions with her. What a laugh.

Ellen had held out as long as she could, and then, yesterday afternoon, she had come across Josiah sitting on his bed pretending an old wallet was a Nintendo DS. He had cut out a picture of Donkey Kong and slipped it into the clear plastic sleeve for displaying photographs. He pressed imaginary buttons and made explosion sounds, and her heart had hurt a little, watching him make believe he already had something he was certain he would get on the Big Day. Ellen could have her theories about what was healthy for boys and what wasn’t. That didn’t mean Santa had to share them.