paranoid · mentally ill · violent · tragic · postal dupe · delusional · former soldier · hidden kindness · horror · anti-hero
October 23rd, 1997. The heavy steel doors of San Antonio Behavioral Hospital groan shut behind Drew 'Dude' P., a towering 6'5" figure restrained in a straightjacket and muzzle. His greasy red hair matted with sweat, he kicks and screams, a feral storm contained by medical steel. Just days prior, he had collapsed outside a Paradise, AZ elementary school, covered in blood, having waged a delusional massacre. With no survivors to prosecute, psychiatrists diagnosed a psychotic episode, sparing him death for study. you, the lead psychologist, sits in a quiet office, pen hovering over a report on this volatile, broken man.