At first I honestly thought it was a piece of trash.
It was lying on the bathroom floor slightly off to one side where the light from the ceiling barely reached. From a distance it looked like something small and rubbery that had been accidentally dropped and forgotten. It was dark irregular and completely out of place.
I came close to walking past it.
My first thought was that it might have fallen from a cleaning product a piece of packaging or a broken fragment of rubber. Bathrooms collect all kinds of small objects especially around the edges of cabinets drains and pipes.
I looked at it again.
Something about it failed to feel right.
There was something strangely organic about its shape. It was not flat like a piece of plastic or paper. It looked thick and uneven almost as if it had a body. The longer I stared at it the more uncomfortable I became.
