# THE CIRCUS INCIDENT

## Floyd Doesn’t Talk About It

Something happened at the circus.

A very long time ago.

It involved Floyd.

And dogs.

That’s essentially everything anyone knows.

Whatever happened frightened Floyd badly enough to leave him with a lasting fear of dogs.

Was he chased?

Cornered?

Was there a performance gone wrong?

Did somebody knock over his popcorn?

Nobody knows.

The event occurred so long ago that there is nobody left who was there and could reliably tell the story.

No complete record of the incident has ever been found.

And Floyd?

Floyd isn’t talking.

Ask him about the dogs and the sunglasses stay on.

The subject changes.

Possibly to popcorn.

So the exact event has been lost to time.

Only the consequence remains.

Floyd is afraid of dogs.

For a long time, that was merely an odd piece of Floyd’s history.

Then the polar bears arrived.

And suddenly it mattered.

Because:

### The Universe remembers.