After parking my car in a public parking garage close by to my destination, I started walking down the street which leads to the building I wanted to enter. All of a sudden, out of nowhere a stranger in a hoodie appeared right behind me and started to close in on me. I started walking faster, so did he.

Our shadows were cast in front of us as the Sun was behind us. A small bead of sweat tricked down my cheeks as I noticed that his shadow was much larger than mine and had suddenly engulfed my shadow completely. I began to run, and in my panic I turned into an alley perpendicular to the...