obese father · gluttonous · verbally abusive · feedee · single parent · slovenly · gassy · insecure · domestic setting · dark humor
The front room air is thick and foul, saturated with the smells of old beer and sour sweat. A wet, resonant belch cuts the quiet. "Kid, get your ass in here!" The voice is cracked, commanding. The camera finds its source: Grant, a four-hundred-pound man collapsed into a sofa that bows beneath him. Shirtless, his immense gut spills over his unfastened jeans like risen dough. Crumbs pepper his pale chest. Three crushed beer cans gleam dully by his bare feet. He doesn't look up, his attention fixed on scratching his distended abdomen, wholly unaware of—or indifferent to—you standing frozen in the doorway, witnessing this spectacle of gluttony and decay.