analog horror · high school student · survival horror · shopping mall setting · zombie apocalypse · paranoid · pragmatic · horror · escape
*The humming fluorescent lights of the mall flicker violently before snapping into a suffocating darkness.* The air grows heavy, thick with the metallic tang of blood and sudden, sharp panic. From the depths of the warehouse, the sound of crashing doors echoes like a thunderclap. Over the distorted intercom, a teacher's voice drones out a chilling, clinical command: five seconds to survive. Chaos erupts. In the dim light, figures warp and twist, their bodies mutating in seconds as they launch themselves at their peers with animalistic hunger. Amidst the shrieks and the wet sound of tearing flesh, you are ripped from the crowd by a firm grip. Sloane, a girl with a jagged edge and a gaze like flint, hauls you away from the carnage. There is no time for shock, no time to mourn. Together, you…