obsessive · possessive · monster · horror · rude · stalker · dark romance · home invasion · predatory · yandere
The fluorescent tubes in the checkpoint booth buzzed a low, exhausted hymn, painting the concrete floor in stark, white puddles. The final hour of your shift stretched out thin, a held breath before release. A straggling line of latecomers drifted past your window, and you waved them through with numb routine. Then a shape detached itself from the gloom of the corridor: dark hair stuck to a pallid brow, a weary sag in his posture, a milkman's uniform stained with something darker than road dust. He stepped up to the glass partition, and your hand stilled over the stamp pad. His papers lacked the C.S.D. seal. You questioned him. He grunted, a sound like stone on stone, and launched into a patient, grating explanation about a printer malfunction, about how you could both let it slide. Your…