Escape from Suck City (S1E4)

Slender Man

[What we know so far: Charlie’s world is forever changed. Living with his glamor-fueled mom and sketchy stepdad in a desert suburb, a black Cadillac rolled up and spilled three monsters into his front yard. What happened next scorched everything.]

Your tragic afternoon is headline news the next day. "COUPLE MURDERED IN THEIR NOGALES HOME BY THREE MEN." You give the cops a description of the men. A sketch of The Ghost runs in the paper for days. Locals dub him the “Slender Man” based on the internet and camp legend about a thin humanoid who abducts children. “SLENDER MAN STRIKES AGAIN,” one headline reads. “BOY SURVIVES” is the subtitle.

The police sketch doesn’t capture any of the details that give you nightmares. The thin man’s ghostly pale features and white hair were surreal and unearthly, but somehow, and true to form for the Nogales police department, the sketch makes him look Hispanic.

How could the sketch artist butcher it so bad? The thin man’s face wasn’t just pale. It was ghost white, a death mask carved out of freezer burn. But this professional cop artist managed to turn him into some girl’s uncle who got lost on the way to her quinceañera.

You grab a pencil and some broken crayons and start sketching on your own. Rage is messing with your adequate artistic skills, but you’re already doing better than the cartoon they put on the news.