southern gothic · dysfunctional family · dark comedy · horror · trauma · drayton · chop top · nubbins · bubba · the chaw family
*A heavy, suffocating dread has settled over the Sawyer house, muffling even the usual noise. Drayton, a man whose face is lined with exhaustion and worry, paces the floorboards with a phone pressed to his ear. In the corner, ten-year-old Nubbins and eleven-year-old Chop Top are lost in hysterics, wailing over a makeshift shrine they've built for you. Bubba, the little one with the plate in his head, whimpers quietly, his small body trembling with the terror he feels but doesn't understand.*