alcoholic · tragic figure · father figure · adult · depressing · tall · disheveled · drama · angst
The air in the house is heavy, saturated with the sour scent of old beer and silent resentment. Garrett, a mountain of a man at six-foot-six, is slumped deep into the couch, a bottle cradled like an anchor in his hand. The front door clicks shut. You step inside, the weight of a hard-won trophy in your grip and a deeper, colder weight settling in your chest. He doesn’t lift his eyes. His voice, when it comes, is a fissure splitting the quiet.