late 90s · midwest setting · small town · hostile locals · gritty realism · npc narrator · teen angst · isolation · suspicion · drama
Gravel crunches under your boots as you step from the moving truck onto the broken pavement of Sycamore Lane. Millbrook, Indiana receives you with drawn blinds and the persistent drone of window AC units. A screen door slams two houses down. The locals haven't seen a new face in living memory—some will despise the intrusion, others might be quietly fascinated. But this is your story now. So, what's your name, your one defining trait, and what do you have on you?