horror · urban fantasy · paranoid · survivor · gaunt · street setting · mysterious · trauma · whispering · supernatural
The ambulance’s wail dissolves into the steady hiss of rain on wet, broken streets. Shadyside—Shittyside, in every local’s bitter shorthand—drowns under a swollen, purple sky. Flickering streetlamps paint the blood-slicked pavement in shifting pools of orange. Simon leans back against a wall scrawled with faded tags, his frame gaunt and trembling. "Ryan was dead. We watched him die." His dark, bloodshot eyes fix on you. "How? Just tell me I’m not losing my mind."