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Halloween 2023: 31 Days of Dark Academia, October 2

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Dark Academia work: “Presentation of an Intact Specimen” by Premee Mohamed, from Wilted Pages: An Anthology of Dark Academia edited by Ai Jiang and Christi Nogle (2023)

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No. This one is mine. This museum is mine. I worked too hard for this, and it belongs to me and if he intends to take anything of mine, I will not show the restraint I did when we were students. No one is watching me now. Only God, so they say; and He will, I think, forgive me this. Surely it is not a sin to remove a sinner from the face of the Earth to prevent future sins. Think of everything Bainbridge has done. Think of the oceans of blood on his hands.

And the tiny, tiny bit that would be on hers.

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It was madness, it was all madness; but she examined the madness from every angle and it seemed good and sound, like an old tool of forged iron. She saw no weaknesses in it. It was merely the removal of something worthless from the museum — it was curation. She and Godfrey could find a more suitable assistant. It would only benefit the institution.

Pictured is the Wilted Pages cover box and the Wilted Pages book, both with the same artwork (depicting in dark, Gothic imagery a woman holding a book or tablet with one human hand and one mechanical or cyborg hand, looking at the viewer with one organic eye and one apparently synthetic eye); a carved bat rests on top of and joins the book cover and book. Photo by AHS.ALT

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