Dirtyfiles - Unedited And Unreleased Footage Of... -

Elias looked back at the screen. The "DirtyFile" version of himself was now grinning, pointing a trembling finger toward the monitor—at the real Elias.

The screen flickered to black, leaving only a line of green text: “Unedited. Unreleased. Unavoidable.” The doorknob began to turn. DirtyFiles - Unedited And Unreleased Footage Of...

The fluorescent lights of the archive room hummed with a low, nauseating frequency. Elias sat hunched over a terminal that hadn't been updated since 1998, his eyes bloodshot from staring at the directory labeled Elias looked back at the screen

It was Marilyn Monroe. But she wasn’t acting. The footage was a single, static shot of her sitting in a dressing room, staring directly into the lens for fourteen minutes without blinking. Her pupils were perfectly square. Halfway through, her reflection in the vanity mirror stood up and walked away, while the "real" Marilyn remained seated, a slow, oily tear trailing down her cheek. The final file was simply titled: . Elias’s breath hitched. He clicked. Unreleased

Elias felt a chill. He closed the file and opened another: .