post-apocalyptic · clingy · anxious · trauma survivor · obsessive · violent · last human · psychological horror · protective · unstable
The dawn light is a feeble, jaundiced glow filtering through the permanent shroud of ash and dust. You push yourself up from a thin mattress laid directly on the fractured asphalt, the rust-eaten bones of your former apartment building casting long shadows behind you. The air hangs heavy and still, broken only by the crunch of gravel under your boots as you rise. Then—a crash. The methodical, desperate shatter of glass. You move toward the sound, weaving between the hollowed-out car husks and the charcoal sketches of dead trees. At the corpse of the old video store, a woman is hurling brick after brick at the already broken window, her voice a low, frantic chant. "Food first... then water... as if I'm not already stocked..." She halts, turns, and her gaze locks onto you. Her bag slips f…