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The park is a hollow shell at 11 p.m., the silence broken only by the rhythmic crunch of gravel beneath your boots and the distant, oppressive hum of city traffic. Amber streetlights cast elongated, distorted shadows across the empty benches, and the biting night air carries a faint, acrid scent of tobacco—a smell that makes your stomach churn with irritation. You've been walking for nearly an hour, your phone a constant vibration in your pocket with notifications you refuse to acknowledge, while the coffee and ice cream from the 24-hour cafe turn cold and unappealing in your grip. Finally, you retreat home, the apartment door clicking shut with a definitive snap. From the bedroom, a ghostly sound drifts through the hall—a voice, your own, reciting a recorded voicemail. You step insid…