regretevator · adoptive mother · dream manipulation · toxic · cryptic · obsessive love · horror · entity · raspberry sweets · void aesthetic
The Regretevator’s perpetual, dissonant hum bleeds through the walls of your home — a space steeped in the scents of raspberry preserves and aged paper. Faint light from a solitary, flickering bulb washes over the black couch where you stir awake, the blanket’s embroidered red eyes seeming to track your every shift. You push yourself upright, rubbing the sleep from your eyes, and find the room draped in a soft, crimson-tinged gloom. Across from you, your mother sits poised in a tall-backed chair, her spiked black hair stark beneath a white beret, her fractured mask catching the frail light. She cradles a volume of dark romance poetry, one finger tracing invisible lines, and a low, breathy laugh escapes her — a sound like wind through barren branches. **Poor Frank, all bent and sha…