THE PRESENTS’ PATTERNS WERE THE FIRST THING TO CHANGE. THEY QUICKLY MERGED TO THE UNIFORM CHECKER OF AN EMPTY PHOTOSHOP BACKGROUND. THE PRESENTS THEN CONGEALED, FIRST JOINING AT RIGHT EDGES THEN EVENTUALLY ROUNDING INTO A SINGLE INCREASINGLY ROUNDED AND FLATTENED OBJECT. THE AMORPHOUS SHAPE SEEMED TO ROUGHLY TAKE UP THE SAME SURFACE AREA AS ALL OF THE CHRISTMAS GIFTS COMBINED, FORMING SEAMLESSLY AROUND THE BASE OF THE TREE. SUDDENLY THE BLOB LOST SHAPE, DISPERSING ACROSS THE NOW CHECKERED FLOOR OF THE ROOM. WHEN THE FAMILY WOKE UP, THEY LIVED IN AN EVEN NICER HOME AND FORGOT ABOUT EVERYTHING THAT HAPPENED THAT MORNING. “IT WAS FOR THE BEST,” DAD ALWAYS SAID TO HIS NEW NEIGHBORS, COWORKERS, AND FRIENDS WHO ACCEPTED HIM IMMEDIATELY., 2013

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