The Things That Followed Me Home

This is a field guide to the things that cannot be easily named.
Across thirty observations, this collection documents creatures that appear in ordinary lives and behave in extraordinary ways.
The Watcher that lingers in doorways.
The Mimic that learns how to survive by becoming someone else.
The Flood that arrives quietly and never truly leaves.
The Echo that repeats what was never meant to stay.
Some readers may recognise these entities.
Some may prefer not to.
These pages contain poetry disguised as research, and research that may feel uncomfortably personal.
Whether these creatures are real or symbolic is left intentionally unresolved.
What matters is not what they are.
It is what they do.
And what is left behind after they have been seen.

THE THINGS THAT FOLLOWED ME HOME
A Field Guide to Unidentified Creatures

-by Lani Quinn

First Edition

Australia, 2026