Note: Gothic is a type of literary storytelling that originated in the southern United States, it primarily works with taking problems or stereotypes in a certain culture and exaggerating them and adding a supernatural element that tends to fall into the Horror Genre. feel free to add your own observations onto the post
-“The Bike Lanes take you everywhere” the locals tell you, you nervously strap on your helmet and start pedaling. “The bike lanes take you everywhere” they chant as you ask for directions. “Everywhere” they drone as you pass them by. “You can bike everywhere” the trees themselves start to whisper as you ride alone. When a pale, nervous freshmen asks you for directions, clutching the keys to her car in a vice, you respond in a monotone “The Bike Lanes take you everywhere.”
-What do you want to eat? You silently think to yourself that Burgers may be nice, You stroll around Downtown. All of the shops are frozen yogurt shops. YoloBerry, Tutti Frutti, Berry of the Innocents, you didn’t know that there could be so many frozen yogurt places. A coming soon sign is strapped to a boarded up Burger place, the only one in a sea of Frozen yogurt, ‘Closed, soon to be ‘Hal’s Frozen yogurt Shack’’
-Talk of new housing is spread through your social group like wildfire. New housing, sustainable living, low prices, paradise. You ask around but nobody knows just where the new Housing is, or even if it really exists. One of your friends, who’s always studied agriculture, says she’s going to check the new housing out. You never see her again after that. Talk of Low income buildings, perfect for students like yourself, spread through your social group like wildfire.