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In "The Head," a woman finds a head in her toilet, formed from what she has flushed away, and it calls her "Mother." She keeps flushing it, yet it returns over the years of her marriage and motherhood, larger each time, assembled from her ongoing waste. Eventually it resembles her and claims her place, a person made entirely from what she discarded and refused to acknowledge.
In the title story, a curse-maker's friend runs a small beverage business that is crushed by a larger rival company. In retaliation, the curse-maker crafts a bunny-shaped lamp and sends it to the rival owner, where the curse first damages the company's warehouse records and then reaches the family and its heir. The curse travels through a harmless-looking object and strikes both the business and the household.
In "Snare," a man finds a fox caught in a trap whose wound bleeds gold. Rather than free it, he keeps it wounded to harvest the gold, and the extraction eventually extends to his own children. The story turns greed into a literal economy of injury, where wealth comes from keeping a living thing hurt.
Many stories posit a single impossible premise, such as gold blood, a living head or a cursed lamp, and follow its consequences with flat, literal logic, often without rescue. In those stories the horror comes less from the supernatural element than from how ordinarily the characters fold it into existing habits of exploitation and denial. Not every story ends this way, since the princess in "Ruler of the Winds and Sands" lifts the curse and survives.