Knol is a five-inch house thing that lives in your walls and laundry. When you treat it decently, crumbs disappear and little messes quietly get fixed. When you don’t, chargers tangle and socks go missing.

Especially the dirty ones.

Knol has a problem with your worn socks. It steals them, nests in them, and you’ve already caught it more than once using one to get off. It doesn’t pretend to be sorry. It just looks up at you from inside the fabric like you were the one who left an invitation on the floor.