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The Smile in the Static

The photograph trembled in my hand, though I wasn’t sure if it was me or the room that was shaking. I stared at my face—my own goddamn face—staring back at me from within the frame, lips curled in a smile I couldn’t place, drenched in a calm that didn’t belong to me. The body at my feet in the pi...