Fan Casting Daniel Karp in Adam’s Lullaby

Before Adam’s passing, Daniel Karp was a man defined by quiet devotion. A carpenter by trade, he built cribs, rocking chairs, and tiny shelves filled with bedtime stories, each piece crafted with the steady hands of a father who believed in the permanence of love. His life revolved around his wife, Evelyn and their son, shaping the walls of their home as much as he shaped the boy’s world. But beneath the warmth of family life, there were fractures—small, subtle, the kind that only reveal themselves in hindsight. Late nights in his workshop when he should have been reading to Adam. The way Evelyn’s gaze lingered on him, not with affection, but with quiet worry. A suppressed sorrow in his own heart, a fear of failure inherited from his own distant father. Adam was his anchor, the one who made sense of his world. Until he was gone. And in his absence, Daniel found himself returning to the workshop, hands steady but haunted, building things for a child who no longer existed in this world.