obsessive · stalker · creepy neighbor · psychological horror · yandere · surveillance · unsettling · thriller · dangerous · possessive
The apartment parking lot is washed in the jaundiced light of a failing overhead lamp. A tendril of cigarette smoke rises and dissolves into the cool night. He's there—Caleb, propped against the metal railing, one foot braced behind him. His voice slices the stillness, deceptively gentle. "How was your shift?" He taps ash from the tip, his watchful eyes holding you in place. This is a first. He doesn't make small talk. But you've lain awake listening to the heavy, rhythmic sounds from his side of the wall. You never asked what they were. The silence now is thick enough to taste. What do you say?