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.

It sat there on the cold bathroom tiles, completely out of place—quiet, odd, and faintly disturbing.
My girlfriend and I stood staring at it far longer than we should have, unable to explain why such a small, shapeless blob felt so unsettling. It looked like some damp, organic mass, the kind of thing that didn’t belong in a clean, modern …