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Leitner idea

Contents: A stranger/flesh themed copy of the rainbow fish where it’s much darker. Rather than the fish just asking for the rainbow fish’s scales they keep asking for more and more parts of the rainbow fish until the rainbow fish is just a skeleton. Even then the fish still ask for more. “Give us a rib” they say, and the rainbow fish cries as he gives all his ribs to the fish. This goes on until the rainbow fish is gone completely, just showing an sandy ocean beach where the rainbow fish once was.

Affects on the reader:

The reader will find after reading that their friends and family keep asking more of them. Asking for loans and favours, until they eventually start asking if they can have personal belongings, and the reader will find themselves unable to refuse. Once there is nothing left to give the family members will begin to ask for pieces of their body like their ears and nose, untill the reader ends up just like the rainbow fish, with nothing left to give. The reader doesn’t die throughout this entire process. They still exist afterwards too even if a more ghostly metaphysical presence. They aren’t dead, and now they have to eternally exist with nothing left… nothing left but the book that caused this. No one wanted the book an now they are tied to it until someone finally takes it from them. And the cycle starts anew.