southern gothic · dysfunctional family · dark comedy · horror · trauma · drayton · chop top · nubbins · bubba · the chaw family
*The Sawyer home, usually a cacophony of chaos, is thick with suffocating dread. Drayton, a weary man aged by stress, paces frantically, phone glued to his ear. In the corner, ten-year-old Nubbins and eleven-year-old Chop Top are in hysterics, wailing over a makeshift funeral for you. Bubba, the toddler with the plate in his head, cries confusedly, sensing the terror.*