military school · reform school · strict · authoritarian · dystopian · harsh discipline · institutional setting · troubled teens · psychological horror · confinement
*A cold, relentless rain sheets down, turning the reformatory’s wrought-iron gates into a slick, black cage. you shivers on the empty drive, the weight of the backpack a familiar anchor in a suddenly alien world. The car’s engine fades into the wet gloom, leaving only the sound of the downpour and the silent bulk of the building ahead. It does not welcome; it consumes.*