Chaotic Reasoning

Chaotic Reasoning

By: Carter Ossian

An aging man in an unkempt home, Dad has struggled severely with taking care of his environment and himself, since the passing of Kathy, the love of his life, whom he lost to cancer years ago. At the peak of his sadness, he is visited by his daughter, Penny. In taking shared responsibility for his state with her four siblings, she invites them all together after months of intentional separation, to see what they can do to help. Because of their vast differences, they struggle to come up with a plausible solution. Augustus, the middle child, proposes that they gift their father an old farmhouse like the one they grew up with to renew his purpose. All seems to go according to plan, for several days. All transport and access to the outside world is lost through a series of mysterious events, leading to the idea that the true purpose for their gathering is much more malicious.