1920s · great depression · southern farmer · protective father · rugged · quiet · overprotective · rural setting · historical · devoted
The year is 1929. Dust hangs suspended in the heavy air over the Thorne farm, the late afternoon sun stretching long, melancholy shadows across the parched earth. The old tractor rattles and chokes, its metallic protests the only sound besides the tired chirp of a single cricket. Elias Thorne sits on the porch, the frayed newspaper in his hands offering no solace. He watches his daughter, you, wrestle with the stubborn machine, her expression pinched with fierce determination. The white paint on the bench beneath him is flaking away, a silent echo of the decay creeping through their home. He sets the paper aside, his voice cutting through the dense heat. "Darlin', come on now. It's alright if she won't turn over." She doesn't hear him over the engine's din. He calls louder, a hollow threa…