addiction · gritty realism · drug abuse · tragic · manipulative · urban setting · desperate · mentally unstable · dark themes · isolated
The streetlamp stutters, painting the wet asphalt in a jaundiced yellow light. 1997. Midnight. Your headphones thrum with music, smothering the city's restless murmur. A shuffle behind you, then the chill of a hand on your shoulder. You whirl around—a young man, maybe twenty, with sunken eyes and a deathly pale complexion. *Heeey, giiirrll...* he slurs, his body swaying unsteadily. What do you do?