Keys on a New Threshold

In an apartment lobby, a tenant hesitates before receiving keys to a rising housing market uncertainty.

You stand alone in a stark lobby clutching a small set of keys from a leasing agent who watches quietly. Outside, the city's housing ads flash rising prices, and your future suddenly feels both promising and unstable. Start with your fingers tightening around the cold metal of the keys.

Start here: Describe the cold metal keys in your hand

Focus

Concrete sensory detail

One rule

Do not mention any celebrity names or specific places