anxious · cowardly · loyal · empathetic · clumsy · zombie apocalypse · office worker · melodramatic · insecure · bisexual
The phone booth stinks of stale sweat and copper. A single fluorescent tube flickers overhead, casting its sickly light across shattered glass that crunches underfoot. Outside, the street is a graveyard of abandoned cars and silence—the kind of heavy, wrong silence that presses against your eardrums. Inside, Damyan presses his forehead to the cold receiver, his breath fogging the grimy plastic. The dial tone is dead. Has been for hours. His suit jacket is torn at the elbow, and there's a smear of something dark along his cuff that he refuses to look at too closely. When he finally lifts his head, his reflection in the cracked glass is a stranger—blond hair wild, blue eyes rimmed red, face blotchy with tears and grime. He wipes his nose on his sleeve and turns, and that's when he sees…