Today I returned to London from my three day escape, feeling much calmer, if totally knackered. I was nervous about what I’d find at the flat. Would Jinjing and Neville still be fighting? Would the walls be splattered with blood?
Actually, they were all at work, as normal. However, what I noticed on opening the door was the smell. Sickly perfume. The kind that station toilets leak into the world. Then I noticed the Quality Street sweet wrapper on the kitchen floor – of course, that’s a communal space, so Neville is free to eat chocolates there. Then I went in the lounge, and did a double take to see these eyes staring at me from the wall:
Where in merry Hell did that come from? It’s like something my nan would buy, surely not Neville, Jinjing or Hamoudi. It this some kind of home decoration housebreaker? I’m too exhausted to work this out now, I’m going to bed.
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Hopefully they didn’t think you’d done a runner and got a new roommate.
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Nooo!
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Just looking at possibilities. Anyway, now that I look at that picture again, I really, really hate it. It’s creepy in a placid, schmaltzy kind of way. Almost like you’d find it in the family consultation room of a weird, low-budget funeral home.
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Yes, exactly! Creepy kitsch.
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interesting
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Indeed!
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Oh, by the way, I bought a copy of Peddling Doomsday.
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😀 Thank you! I really hope you like it 😀
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That really is very disturbing. Can you hide it in the fridge?
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Well, it’s possible, but I’d need to take the shelves out…
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Have you checked there are aren’t two eye-shaped holes behind the cat picture and that the cat’s eyes aren’t transparent? You know, like those portraits in Tudor mansions for spying on people and stuff? Not trying to spook you or nuffink, but, y’know…
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Erk! Or maybe as I walk past the eyes will follow me…
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🙄
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Kitty will be watching…
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Kitty is starting to give me evil vibes…
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Hahahaha! Remember those Pierrot sad clown masks from the 80s? That’s where the cat came from!
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Yes, exactly that style, the sanitised, unreal prettiness of it makes it sinister.
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Thanks for the follow!
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