I found this in my girlfriend’s bathroom. We’ve been looking at it for an hour now and still can’t figure out what it is.
By the time we’d run through every nightmare scenario — parasite, mutant mold, some kind of rotting animal part — the bathroom felt like a crime scene. My girlfriend kept asking if it was dangerous, if we should call someone, if it meant something was horribly wrong with the apartment. I tried to sound calm,…