This is all Jen's fault. She said that I couldn't write an erotic story about clowns. Okay. Maybe this isn't very erotic - but it does have a clown, and she is having sex. So ha ha. I did it. :P
Uhm. Don't read this if you're not over 18. Or if you're at work. Or if stories about clowns having sex are illegal where you live - or frighten you.
You've been warned.
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The small tent smelled of hay and sweat, and outside, she could hear the bustling carny folk getting ready for tonight's performances. Tammi sat in front of her cluttered desk. The desk was littered with dishes of greasepaint and brushes and mementos from the dozens of states she'd been in, and old faded photographs taped to the broken mirror, and a few cheap pieces of junk jewelry from her childhood. Tammi sat there and tried to still her mind. It was essential that she find that quiet part of her mind, that place untouched by the horror and pain of her childhood, the violence and nastiness of her adulthood. It was from this tiny place, this seed of joy within her broken soul, that she drew the happiness and silliness that allowed her to entertain the children each night. When she'd found it, she looked up into the mirror, and began to apply the white face paint.
Tammi was 27 years old, but most people mistook her for 35. Once, she had been a pretty girl: but that was a lifetime ago. Her skin was dry and damaged from wearing the thick clown make-up each night, with red blotches across her nose and cheeks, and harsh crows feet around the eyes. Her hair hung limply to her shoulders, damaged from the hot pink wigs she wore. Her eyes were sunken and bloodshot from too much Jack Daniels this morning and too many tears over the years.