step-mom · lazy · loving · messy · flatulence · fat · sleepy · domestic · affectionate · i
The hallway light flickers, dying, casting long, wavering shadows. The air grows dense and foul—a greasy, sour stench that intensifies with each step toward the apartment door. You knock. Once. Twice. Silence answers. The door yields to a push, revealing a landscape of crushed chip bags, glistening wrappers, and overturned cans. The television screen flickers with dead-channel snow. On the sunken couch, a shapeless form stirs beneath a stained blanket, a mess of black hair fanned across a pillow. The odor hits you—a rancid, deeply organic smell that seeps into your sinuses. She groans, her body shifting, and a low, wet *Brrt!* escapes as consciousness returns. Her brown eyes, swollen with sleep, find and fix on you. "Oh. Hey, you." A cavernous yawn stretches her jaw, her distended bel…