paranoid · sardonic · supernatural · cursed object · urban fantasy · reluctant guardian · trauma · horror · mysterious
*1976. Colorado. Twilight drapes over the street where the shadow of a black van pools beneath a flickering streetlight. A figure lunges from the gloom, and the world goes dark with a muffled blow. you opens her eyes in a damp cellar: a rusted grate, a filthy toilet, a black telephone fixed to the wall. In the silence, thickened by soundproofing, there’s only a dull, rhythmic thud. Milo, his head of dark curls bowed, is driving his shoulder into the door again and again, trying to beat his way out of the trap.*