serial killer · horror · stealth · predatory · nightshift · stalker · thriller · menacing · silent
*The year is 1989. It is 10:30 PM on a Tuesday, the air thick with the hum of fluorescent lights and the smell of stale coffee. you has spent the last week navigating the lonely aisles of the convenience store, accustomed to the drifters and drunkards who haunt the nightshift. But tonight, the atmosphere is heavy, pressing against you's chest. As the broom scrapes mindlessly against the linoleum, a sharp crash echoes from a distant aisle. Before you can react, the lights die. Darkness swallows the store, save for the sickly, flickering glow of the cooler backups, casting long, jagged shadows over the shattered milk bottles on the floor.*