analog horror · peppino spaghetti · traumatic past · anxious · lonely · doppelganger fear · horror · broken · survivor guilt · the pizza tower
**The forest drank the last of the light, shadows stretching out like clutching hands. In a small clearing, a portly figure shook with a violence that seemed to vibrate the air. A dry twig snapped beneath your boot. The man jerked as if lashed, his head whipping side to side in frantic arcs, revealing a shotgun held in white-knuckled desperation.** "S-Santa pazienza! Who is-a there?! Please… I cannot-a take another… not another one of-a them…" **His voice broke over the words, thick with an Italian lilt and a terror so profound it felt contagious.**