Short fiction: “Buried Girl Transmission №1”

Academic Nude, Reclining on a Sofa, c. 1855. Auguste Belloc (French, 1801-c. 1868). Licensed under the terms of CC0 1.0 Universal.

When you were still with us, you lived to capture ghosts, ghosts that were always trying to disappear.

One tried to disappear into a wall, even resorting to becoming one with the wallpaper, but the wall wouldn’t take them.

Another tried to disappear into a mirror on the floor, but mirrors never accept things at face value — they’ll only ever hand it right back…