The author's story behind the story. One seasonable cold father's day, a young man watched as his dad lay dying in a hospital bed from cancer. He begun saying his goodbye's to his dad as he already knew his time was short. Earlier that day the smell of death filled the room and seemed to only be smelled by the young man. The smell only went away after his father passed. The young man never forgot and that smell continued to pop up in his life from time to time with the same outcome of his dad. Years early he smelled it on two friends that passed shortly after. Over the years, he grew into a ma...