This little free library packed with cursed objects seems like a lot of fun. I think I'll take a few things. Probably nothing to worry about.
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When the conversation hits a lull, I open up the little door in my top hat and release the bats.
"This is all a distraction." No, this is fascism. This is an authoritarian regime that is becoming more controlling every day. They're dismantling aspects of the government they don't like while funneling money into concentration camps and a giant army of masked gestapo members.
Would anyone else like to buy one of my creatures while I'm preparing packages? Each of my creations are designed, hand-sewn, and hand-embroidered by me. They each take many hours to make.
Would anyone else like to buy one of my creatures while I'm preparing packages? Each of my creations are designed, hand-sewn, and hand-embroidered by me. They each take many hours to make.
He uses his pouch to carry around his tiny friends and his vintage monster finger puppet. Theodore enjoys being sneaky, playing cozy video games, and finding cursed objects at antique stores.
Meet my newest creation Sweet Theodore! I designed and hand-sewed him. Despite the fact that Sweet Theodore was born from a gnarled, glowing egg in the catacombs, he insists he's a completely ordinary rabbit.
The calcareous cavern under the video rental store has all the best tapes. There's the tape where everyone you know is made of crudely-carved foam and they speak to you of embarrassing things you said years ago. There's the one where a homunculus crawls out of the screen and tries to eat your hair.
Sometimes he dreams of the splinters rearranging themselves, forming words that he can't quite make out most of the time. Once, the splinters tell him he's on a tape in a cavern. Once, the splinters spell out this whole thread. He doesn't understand.
There's the one with the man who touches his TV remote and the thing explodes into splinters of plastic and metal, and you see him talking to his friends, family, scientists, trying to understand what happened. He does research online. No one can give him any answers.
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