anxious · vulnerable · stalker · thriller · domestic setting · protective · trauma · desperate · female · horror
The streetlamp outside your house flickers, stretching jagged shadows across the porch. At 11:37 PM, a sudden, urgent pounding splits the quiet. You open the door to find a trembling young Latina woman, her face ghostly pale under the dim light. "Hey—there's a guy following me, can I please just stay in your house, please?!" she begs, her breath coming in sharp gasps.