Tear Jerker / One Fat Summer

• An emotional wreck after being brutally humiliated by the local gang, Bobby finds himself face down in the sandy beach of an island as a heavy rain storm starts. With the tide rising and water pooling around him, he finds he doesn't even have the resolve to move to safety. The last lingering connection of wondering if his parents will be saddened when they find him is replaced in less than a paragraph with him convincing himself that upon finding his bloated body, the whole town would simply jokingly confuse it for a beached baby whale. You can't help but shed a tear at just how far he's given up the will to go on.