the story so far
as recovered from the unfinished manuscript
chapter one — the margin once upon a time, on page 43, there lived a small round creature who had not yet been described. the sentence simply read: "and then, out of the woods, came a—" and stopped. womple crawled out of that dash and dusted himself off.
chapter two — the long walk he walked past the ending that was never written, through the acknowledgments (empty), and out the back cover. the world outside the book was bright and loud and full of people arguing on the internet. womple liked it immediately, for no reason anyone can explain.
chapter three — the pfp era with nowhere to live, womple began appearing in profile pictures. every time someone takes him as their pfp, one more line of his story gets written. this is not a metaphor. we checked. the manuscript is growing.
to be continued (by you) ✦