Text: "STICKS & STONES" in heavy prompts

2 months ago

Visual: A stark, deep indigo/almost black background (the void, the cold). Centered is an old, cracked flip phone (symbolizing the unexpected, outdated call from Sasa) lying open on a worn, dirty-yellow laminate floor (grandmother's house, the vomit scene). The small, green-lit screen displays only two stark lines of pixelated text: INCOMING: SASA "TARIK IS COLD." Foreground: Resting precariously on the edge of the open phone, about to fall into the void of the background, is a single, impossibly bright blue ROXIE pill. It casts a small, sharp shadow. Next to the phone, barely noticeable, is a faint, ghostly outline of a body shape rendered in icy, translucent blue lines, fading into the dark. Text: "STICKS & STONES" in heavy, bleached-bone white letters, cold and unforgiving, dominating the top third. Author name very small, bottom corner. Color Palette: Deep Indigo/Black (void, cold), Dirty Yellow (floor, sickness), Sickly Green (phone screen), Electric Blue (pill), Bleached Bone White (text, ghost).

2 months ago

The Shattered Pill (Most Literal & Graphic) Visual: An extreme close-up of a bright, electric blue ROXIE pill dominating the frame. It's violently shattered/cracked down the middle like fractured ice or broken stone. Within the crack, instead of powder, swirl a sickly, toxic mix of colors: icy white (fentanyl), harsh yellow (meth), dirty grey (cocaine), and inky black (other poisons). This ooze bleeds out slightly onto a stark, cold white background. Foreground: Lying partially under the shattered pill, slightly out-of-focus, is a cheap, discarded cell phone screen. The screen is dark/cracked, but the faint ghost-image of "SASA" is barely visible in the call log. A single, sharp crack in the screen points directly towards the pill's fracture. Text: "STICKS & STONES" in bold, heavy, chiseled concrete-gray letters, slightly fractured or eroded, positioned powerfully above or below the pill. Author name small, bottom corner. Color Palette: Electric Blue (pill), Harsh White (background), Sickly Yellow/Grey/Black (ooze), Cold Steel Gray (text).