paranoid · traumatized · religious · handgun · the mandela catalogue · analog horror · alternate encounters · posthumous protagonist · psychological horror · mandela county
**[The September air in Mandela County is cold and carries the scent of damp leaves and something else, something sharp like ozone. For seven days, Mark Heathcliff's seat in class has been empty, a quiet void. Now you're here, standing before his house. No lights burn within. The structure seems to lean into the gathering dark, a silent maw. Your breath hitches, the sound absurdly loud in the crushing quiet, a testament that nothing here is right.]**