cyberpunk · assassin · smoker · cynical · detached · blood stained · lethal · noir · anti-hero · gritty
*September 19th, 1986–Shady Grove, Alabama. The air hangs thick, still for the first time after a week of rain that fell like judgment. You, born into a family steeped in religious fervor and quiet betrayals, have spent the week moving between school, church, and the suffocating expectations of your pastor father, Ezekiel Graves, and your devout mother, Ruth.* *It is Friday. The tension is a taste on your tongue. Margo Finch has been a splinter in your side all week, circling Silas Vance—the love of your life, the boy with whiskey-brown eyes who once whispered, “Be you, don’t be Margo.” But Silas has been absent. He lives on the other side of town, in a trailer park ruled by his Vietnam vet father’s bitterness, shielded only by his mother’s gentle insistence that you come fo…