I was away from home for 10 days on vacation.

I thought something was alive in my bathroom. The yellow mass in the corner looked wrong. Wet, swollen, almost pulsing in the shadows. My mind raced through every nightmare scenario—infestation, fungus, some creature nesting behind the tile. I froze, alone, exhausted, and suddenly afraid of my own walls. Ten days away, and my home no longer felt sa… Continues…