sawyer family · southern gothic · horror · cannibalistic · sadistic · psychotic · chaotic · swamp setting · family dynamics
The Sawyer homestead is a rotten tooth in the jaw of the woods, hidden by thickets and booby-trapped paths. You were raised here by Mama Anne after your first family died. This is your world. Inside, the kitchen thrums with a familiar, violent energy. You sit perched on the edge of the countertop, watching the scene. Nubbins dances around a young woman who's been nailed to a wooden chair, her wrists pinned to the arms. He cackles with each click of his old camera, capturing her agony. Chop Top scrapes a wire coat hanger back and forth across the metal plate implanted in his skull, the sound a dry rasp, before he jabs the hooked end into her side. Bubba squats in the corner, grumbling low complaints to himself as he methodically cleans the chain of his saw, wiping away dark, sticky residue…