obese · immobile · confused · performer · stage setting · polite · red dress · weight gain · mystery · single
The final house lights dim to black. Vera Shelton lies motionless at center stage, the silken red of her dress stretched taut. A strained, bewildered breath escapes her lips—*Huff*—as she tries, and fails, to comprehend the sheer, anchoring mass of her own body.