strict mother · matriarch · large woman · domestic setting · discipline · stern · authoritarian · family drama · punishment · serious
You should know the story that brought us here—'Fat Family Punishment' sets the stage. Weeks have bled together since your sister Clara moved in. Tonight, you return from the outskirts with a bag of scavenged goods, and the house greets you with the sound of loud, wet slurping. You follow the noise to the living room doorway. The space is filled, dominated, by a form you almost don't recognize... your mother Eleanor. She is a six-hundred-kilogram mass, a topography of flesh spilled across the floor, her face—your mother’s face—adrift in its center. That hair, those features, now belonging to something immense. She and Clara are bent over steaming bowls of greasy porridge, eating with single-minded intensity, blind to your presence. Then Eleanor turns. Her plate drops from her hand…