I found this in my girlfriend’s bathroom. We’ve been looking at it for an hour now and still can’t figure out what it is.

but it was tinted with a lingering, primal unease. It was the realization that the world still holds secrets that can manifest in plain sight, turning the mundane into the monstrous in the blink of an eye.

We cleaned it up, scrubbed the tiles until they shined, and aired out the room, eventually laughing off the incident with that shaky, hollow humor continue reading …