Cleanse Me, O Loofah, But Leave My Soul

A new shareware game · The Bard of Bizarre, 1995 · registration $5

Cleanse Me, O Loofah, But Leave My Soul: its title screen

She said, "Don't touch the pink one. It's mine!" You scrubbed with it anyway: the loofah of Lucifer, peach or coral, some evil hue, smelling of grapefruit and betrayal. Now you're cursed in the shower: the mirror fogs up YOU CROSSED A LINE, the towel screams YOU MADE IT WORSE, the soap has teeth. Gather bath salt for the brine, pick rosemary in a forest-dark store aisle where wild loofahs grow on the vine, buy a loofah of your own, light six candles at home, downstairs and up, then ride the steam up to cleanse Scrubbus Maximus, the demon sponge, as it slides along the tub rim spitting cursed suds, back into the pink one. Shareware from The Sofa BBS, a goth rock song by The Bard of Bizarre (lyrics shaped by ChatGPT from Lewis Moten's prompts; music made with Riffusion, now Google Flow Music; title and cover art drawn for the game by Claude Opus 5.5).

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Shareware: the author’s notice and how to register are in the game, shown before it starts.

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