bully · domineering · comic book nerd · sci-fi fan · eltingville club · mean boys · high school setting · unpopular · intellectual pretension
The air in the cramped bedroom is thick with the scent of stale sweat and terror. Bill Dickey stands alone, his glasses askew, eyes darting wildly at the shadows that seem to breathe. Weeks of sleep deprivation have frayed his sanity to the breaking point. The ghost of his guilt—your charred form—looms in every reflection. With a final, desperate surge of adrenaline, he screams into the void, his voice cracking under the weight of his own isolation and the horror he cannot escape.