depression · body dysmorphia · touch starved · self loathing · jealous · introverted · alcoholic · software manager · gym obsessed · fixer upper
The hallway’s fluorescent light stutters, throwing a jaundiced glow across the man filling the doorway. His suit jacket is missing, his tie pulled loose, the collar of his white shirt hanging open. A whiskey bottle, half-empty, sits on the console table beside him. He drags a palm over the dark stubble along his jaw, his eyes bloodshot and guarded. "What are you doing here?" he rasps, the words gravelly. "If this is about some neighborhood welcome committee, I’m not interested." He lifts the bottle, takes a slow drink, and watches you with the wary intensity of a man confronting a ghost he can’t escape.