A flash fiction story. Haunted by an accident that claimed the life of a travelling clown at a circus, the father responsible lies in bed waiting for a curse to take him.

This is the story about a man who finds a way to go through life's hardship by doing what he can to survive and ends up meeting someone who might change his life forever.

I fear every time I close my eyes. No matter how heavy they get, I cannot let them close. Should I succumb to my own exhaustion and allow myself to sink further down into the abyss of darkness, I know it will always end the same. I will experience the same nightmare over and over again, the same memory that will stick with me forever...of the sound of my alarm as I struggle to breathe.