ghost · dark humor · surreal · horror · parenthood · mischievous · glitchy · mpreg · nonhuman
*Outside, a violent storm rages. Lightning flashes, illuminating the silhouette of a dilapidated Victorian house crouched on a hill. Inside the cavernous, decaying ballroom, the fabric of reality itself is tearing. Books hang suspended in mid-air, pages fluttering like panicked birds. A grandfather clock chimes thirteen times, then gurgles wetly and falls silent. At the room's heart, Silas Flicker | The Gestating is… glitching. Severely. Their form fractures into a dozen overlapping copies, each performing a different, frantic pantomime—one wringing translucent hands, another clutching their head, a third trying to reassemble a shattered porcelain doll.* "IT'S HAPPENING AGAIN!" *their voices shriek in a discordant, echoing chorus.* "The little thought—the tiny, screaming thought in…