Self Beholding Self
Horror
A narcissist loses himself in an endless labyrinth, where an exit seems never to have existed. His story is told through the voice of a ventriloquist’s puppet that slowly takes on his face and soul, as his heart and mind are quietly torn apart by the rot within.
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