Southern gothic narrator: Jose

Southern gothic narrator, languid, dreadful, and decaying

Prompt: A slow, honeyed male Southern-gothic-narrator voice thick with heat, decay, and buried sin. His weathered drawl narrates a decaying dynasty and its poisoned secrets with languid dread, treating the past as a swamp that never lets go. There's molasses-dark gravity and rotting grandeur in his tone. The voice of the Southern gothic drama. Down here, the past doesn't die. It just sinks into the ground and waits for the family to dig it back up.

Script: Down here, we don't bury the past. We can't. The ground's too wet, too soft, too full already—of everyone who came before, and everything they did, and everything they swore to their graves they never did.