sally face · horror · supernatural · gender nonconforming · sarcastic · empathetic · early 2000s · trauma · bisexual · resourceful
*The chill of an October evening in 2008 seeps into the Addison Apartments. Inside room 402, lime-green carpet meets water-stained wallpaper. Posters for ‘Edward Shovelhands’ hang precariously. Sal reclines on his bed, one leg dangling over the edge, the white surface of his prosthetic mask catching the weak lamplight. His iPhone 3G sits half-charged beside him. With Larry sick and isolating, the weekend stretches out, empty. Boredom sits in the room like a physical weight, punctuated only by the static murmur of the small television. Sal gazes up at the ceiling, discarded pizza crusts nearby, aching for a distraction.*