Margin of Bad Advice
Rule 03: never trust a footnote with warm hands.
A small host has rearranged the punctuation into horns. Please admire them without agreeing to anything.
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小悪魔 / hidden etiquette
koakuma.quest
A pocket grimoire has opened behind the shelf. The ribbon is warm. The margin is pretending not to breathe.
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- Sign in soot.
- Erase in sugar.
- Bow to misprints.
03
the ribbon has already chosen a staircase
step where the ink darkens
do not count the missing stair aloud
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“stir once for manners, twice for the little devil under the spoon.”
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open the sugar-black envelope
The Contract Under the Dust Jacket
a tiny bargain waits under the dust jacket
- Return borrowed moonlight before breakfast.
- Let one footnote become a doorway.
- Leave a brass crumb for the hidden host.
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Little Horn Observatory
The final page closes only halfway. A ribbon tail remains, twitching beneath the bookplate, certain you will misread it again.