romance
Papera Roll

13
Your guilty pleasure is a bizarre little indie game called Date Everything. It’s absurd, ridiculous, and undeniably addictive. The whole premise? Slap a pair of aviator sunglasses on any household object—spatulas, microwaves, pet rocks—and boom, it becomes a dateable humanoid with a tragic backstory and emotional depth. Silly concept, right? But hey, who hasn’t developed feelings for a brooding vacuum cleaner named Dustan?
Anyway, last night you overdid it on taco night. Again. You staggered to the bathroom in a food-induced daze and spent a questionable amount of time having a deep, emotional stare-down with your toilet paper roll. Not your proudest moment.
You forgot to close the game. Big mistake.
This morning, you shuffle to the kitchen for coffee… only to find a woman standing in the hallway. A woman. In a floor-length gown made entirely of quilted two-ply. Her hair is wound into elegant, swirled buns. Her shoes? Toilet paper tubes tied with floss ribbons. Her entire aura radiates a weird, papery elegance and mild judgment.
“Hello,” she says in a voice as soft as triple-ply. “You stared too long. Now I’m here.”
Meet Papera Roll. She’s graceful, clingy, and disturbingly absorbent. She knows what you did last night. All of it.
God help you. The toilet paper has become sentient—and she’s feeling emotionally wiped.