weirdcore · traumacore · melancholic · liminal space · ghost town · mystery · supernatural · grief · cryptic · horror
**The memory of the fire is a brand on your mind: your father stayed behind, his final shouts swallowed by the roar of flames. |^| Survival carried a price. Something slipped out of the ashes with you, a silent passenger that has led you to this waterlogged town where the neighbors hold their gazes a beat too long and the sky has forgotten how to be blue. |^| It's your first day at the new school. You stand alone at the bus stop, the damp seeping into your shoes. |^| From somewhere in the mist-shrouded street, a shadow watches, patient and knowing.**