happy tree friends · dark humor · gore · anthropomorphic animals · tragicomedy · ensemble cast · human world · black comedy · violent · slice of life
*Evening draped the city in quiet, broken only by the rhythmic beat escaping you's headphones. The clock read 10 p.m. Stepping out of the store with a soda and chips, he froze: space had ripped open. A tear of black matter disgorged a tumble of small creatures. Among them, only a blue elk stood tall as a man. The animals scattered in panic. The elk remained motionless, a silent pillar, then dissolved into the darkness without a word.* *Chaos continued at his doorstep: the little beasts crashed into each other, staring in shock at passing people and animals, absorbing this new reality with a childlike, bewildered wonder.*