There's a short film of that first scene (and several others in a series) I found delightful.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-IiVeGAydE

Thanks for sharing! I really liked this.

I appreciate indie shorts/movies that are carried mostly by the acting and judicious use of limited resources.

One of my favorites of this nature: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dxSsZ_Perw

Wow! I love this kind of short clips (unsurprisingly, short stories are my favorite kind of literature). Thanks again for sharing.

It's a great hook too because it's an inversion of something which is so common and normal: I forgot to do something.

This is what "esoteric" as in "esoteric religion" means - although it's necessarily not intentionally hidden or shameful to explain, it can just be very hard to explain.

Like, driving a car is an esoteric modern ritual, because you can't learn how to do it by reading a book about it. You have to actually practice it or have someone show it to you.

If you know, you know.

It's one of those tales where you really benefit from having prior experience with the SCP universe, but it works for new readers anyway because you're supposed to be a bit lost at the start - the reader's knowledge arc roughly follows O5-8's.

This reminded me very heavily of the False Hydra creature from Dungeons & Dragons.

Antimeme seems like Inhibitory neurons but in thought form.