Hours had slipped by like ghosts through the rafters, and still Suzuka remained frozen in place - stage-lit and hollowed out, clutching that half-written letter like it might start bleeding answers if she only stared hard enough. The paper trembled in her hands, the ink refusing to give up its secrets, no matter how many times her eyes devoured the same line.
The words echoed through her mind lik...
The next time they met, it wasn’t in the graveyard - it was in the decaying loft above an abandoned theater downtown, where the velvet curtains still clung to the rafters like dried blood and forgotten applause. Kim had texted her nothing but coordinates and a red heart drawn in smeared lipstick. When Suzuka arrived, the air was thick with incense and paint fumes, the windows blacked out with duct...
They started meeting in the old cemetery on the hill - not by plan, but by pattern, like the moon finding its way back to full. It was quiet there, sacred in its own forgotten way. Kim would bring their terrible speaker, the kind with crackling bass and terrible range, and she’d bring her sketchbook and a flask of butter coffee. They never said much at first. Just wandered between headstones like ...
The rain came down in sheets the night they made something together for the first time - not just art, but a communication of chaos.
It started in their studio, a converted church in the edge of the city. Stained glass windows still watched from above, casting fractured lights across amps, wires, and canvases. The altar had been replaced with a blood red piano, its keys half-stripped, half-painte...
The first time Suzuka saw Kim Dracula in person, it felt like being struck by lightning- slow, searing, and impossible to forget.
She wasn’t supposed to be at the tattoo parlor that night. The last-minute art show had been advertised in whispers and half-torn flyers, tucked between coffee shop bulletin boards and record store counters. It was more rumor than reality, until she stepped through the...