Unnamed.jpg 〈2026〉

A notification was waiting for him. AirDrop: "unnamed.jpg" wants to share a photo.

He declined it. It popped up again. And again. The screen became a flickering strobe light of requests. In a fit of panic, Julian threw the phone across the room. It hit the wall and landed face-up. unnamed.jpg

Every time Julian tried to delete it, his computer would freeze. If he renamed it, it would revert back to "unnamed.jpg" by the next morning. It was a digital ghost, a stubborn glitch in his otherwise organized life. Eventually, he stopped trying to get rid of it and simply tucked it into a corner of his screen, hidden behind the trash bin icon. A notification was waiting for him

His computer chimed from the desk. A new file had appeared on the desktop: . It popped up again

Julian felt a cold prickle at the base of his neck. He zoomed in. In the gap of the doorway, he could just make out the pale edge of a hand gripping the wood. It was thin, with elongated fingers that looked more like wax than flesh.