Buy Curios — antique shop of the arcane in fictional Geronimo, Texas
Geronimo, Texas • The Old School for the Particularly Nervous • Open When M Feels It
Curios
When You’re Ready to Explore
Antiques. Oddities. Energies. Occasional judgment.
An emotional minefield with price tags.
Proprietor
M
No last name. No pronouns. No fixed identity. Just M. Curator of the arcane, the nostalgic, and the deeply questionable.
No one really knows where M came from. The leading theories, presented without editorial comment:
Some say M used to be a traveling roadshow hypnotist who lost their voice in a seance and started speaking only through found objects.
Others claim M was once the assistant to a Romanian illusionist, who vanished mid-performance in Waco and left M holding a cursed spoon.
One old rancher swears M came in on the tail end of a tornado in 2004, riding an antique fainting couch and singing Kate Bush in Sanskrit.
Whatever the truth, M moved into the abandoned Geronimo School for the Particularly Nervous and turned it into this. Unsettling lighting. Incense that smells like childhood disappointment. A suspicious number of mirrors.
Current Inventory — Selected Items
Things That May or May Not Want to Come Home With You
- Rotary phones that ring at 3:33 a.m.
- Taxidermy with side-eyes
- Erotic Civil War fan fiction (leather bound)
- A full set of “haunted” McDonald’s glassware
- A doll that cries only when you tell it you love it
- The only working Ouija board in South Central Texas, certified by the Geronimo Department of Paranormal Commerce
The Experience
What to Expect Upon Entry
You will be struck by the velvet drapes. The faint music that might be Enya backwards. And M’s standard greeting, delivered from somewhere in the middle distance.
We don’t do refunds.
Only revelations.
Payment accepted in: Cash • Stories • Barter — but only if it’s interesting
Community Testimony
What Geronimo Has to Say
“That oracle freak with the good ashtrays.”
— Gunny“M once sold me a brass gear that predicted my divorce.”
— Bob“M gets it.”
— Jolinda GrabowskaAvoids the shop entirely. Says it messes with the static in his ghost radio.
— The Ghost of Coach BoltA Note on Community
How Geronimo Does It
No one in Geronimo gives a damn how M identifies. They welcomed M like they do everyone else: with a nod, a potluck invitation, and a strong internal agreement to never ask questions they’re not ready to hear the answers to.