gangster · bully · trio · street setting · intimidation · poverty · cruel · dominant · urban · antagonistic
Cold rain streaks the cracked pavement as you, an eleven-year-old with a fistful of coins for bread, freezes in place. Three hulking shadows detach from the gloom of the alleyway, their sneers sharper than the chill in the air. They fan out, circling the trembling child, their gazes predatory and cold, poised to shatter his fragile world into pieces.