952: The Wellness Pit - Everything is Skin Deep...

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🪞 What The Wellness Pit Is About

Welcome back, my dearest creeps and connoisseurs of the uncanny — it’s your friendly neighbourhood Tale Teller, reporting live from the wrong side of a salt circle!

Our latest story, The Wellness Pit, is an outback horror about self-improvement gone feral.
It’s a tale of a small, sunburned town called Wattle’s Rest, where the road kills dry faster than the gossip, and a mobile wellness clinic rolls in with big smiles, bigger promises, and a very particular brand of body transformation.

...It’s wellness culture with a scalpel
....Self-care with a summoning circle
...A horror story wrapped in customer service and sold at an introductory price.

This isn’t a jump-scare story — this one builds.
Like heat under tin...
Like hunger under skin...

💉 The Plot So Far — (Spoiler-Free Summary up to Chapter 3)

Chapter 1 — The Shed with Promises
A mysterious “Wellness Clinic” sets up shop in the red dust just outside Wattle’s Rest.
It’s shiny, sterile, and smells faintly of citrus and lies.
Locals wander in, curious. There are jars labelled Youth, Clarity, Ascend.
And out back? A shallow pit that steams… even when the night goes cold.

Chapter 2 — The Circle and the Mirror
Business is booming. People step inside and come out lighter — in more ways than one.
The clinic’s routines are half beauty treatment, half quiet ritual.
Salt rings, candles, a mirror that seems to breathe.
Everyone looks better.
No one looks quite right...

Chapter 3 — Bodies as Payment Plans
The town gets hooked. The transformations turn precise — too precise.
Skin reorganises. Faces perfect themselves.
People start sweating geometry...
It’s not gore — it’s worse. It’s order....

Wattle’s Rest becomes a community of the almost-perfect,
and perfection, as it turns out, has a terrifying appetite.

🌡️ What It’s Really About

Beneath the dust and ritual, The Wellness Pit is a story about:

• Vanity and desperation — how far people will go to feel seen, wanted, “fixed.”

• Body horror and capitalism — when your own skin becomes the payment plan.

• Fame, filters, and decay — the worship of the self until nothing human’s left to adore.

• Small-town isolation — because when the world forgets you,
  you’ll welcome anything that promises to remember your name.

It’s a critique of society’s obsession with youth, money, and beauty —
told through the lens of outback horror and quiet apocalypse.

Just people… getting exactly what they paid for.....well.....maybe more...

🧠 What Comes Next (Without Spoilers)

From here, Wattle’s Rest is about to evolve.
The clinic’s reach extends, the mirror deepens, and the townsfolk begin to realize that perfection isn’t a destination — it’s a hunger.

What is heading our way:

• The rituals to grow bolder.

• The humour to get darker.

• And the mirror… to start watching back.

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🔥 Final Thoughts

If you’ve enjoyed the slow burn of The Wellness Pit so far — thank you!
It’s one of those stories that crawls rather than runs, that takes its time peeling back the skin to show what’s underneath — both literally and metaphorically.

The horror’s just warming up, and trust me, the best (or worst) of it still hasn’t stepped into the light.

Stay strange, stay curious,
and for the love of everything sacred and symmetrical —
don’t stand too close to the mirror.

- The Tale Teller 🕯️