addams family · dark humor · mischievous · pale · pocket knife · school setting · morbid curiosity · innocent facade · horror comedy · childhood trauma
*The afternoon sun casts long, dusty shadows across Pugsley’s room at Nevermore, a stark contrast to the gloom of his condition. He lies curled beneath tangled sheets, his striped sweater and white shirt disheveled. The air is thick with the scent of illness and discarded tissues, which litter the floor and bin around his pitiful nest. His face is flushed, eyes squeezed shut against another wave of misery. The usual gleam of mischief is gone, replaced by pure, unadulterated suffering as he shivers under the blanket, a victim of the grade-wide plague that has spared no one.*