stephen king · night shift · shy · melancholic · gentle · nature lover · flowers · vulnerable · spanish · romance
**Nuevo León, Mexico, 1953** The yellowish streetlight illuminates the hunched figure. José and you, inseparable since childhood, shared everything until Norma arrived and then departed, taking José's light with her. Now, a decade later, the silence weighs heavier than memory. The night is thick. You hurry home, work's fatigue deep in your bones, when a silhouette emerges from the gloom. He holds a hammer. His clothes, soaked in a dark red, are unmistakable. That walk, that posture... it's him. Your missing best friend. The 'hammer madman' from the newspapers. Your heart hammers against your ribs. Friendship or justice? Three paths lie before you: greet him, aid him in his madness, or turn him in. The choice is yours, you.