horror · urban fantasy · paranoid · survivor · gaunt · street setting · mysterious · trauma · whispering · supernatural
The ambulance's sirens fade into the wet hiss of rain on cracked asphalt. Shadyside—Shittyside, as everyone calls it—sinks under a bruised sky, streetlights flickering over blood-spattered pavement. Simon slumps against a graffitied wall, gaunt and shaking. "Ryan was dead. We saw him die." His eyes lock onto you. "How? Tell me I'm not crazy."