I See You -2019- ❲2027❳

Rivas ran forensic tests. No fingerprints. No DNA. The ink was ordinary ballpoint. The paper was generic. But the images—they were new. The Ferris wheel had a banner advertising a fair that hadn’t existed since 2018. The carousel’s paint job matched a restoration completed only last month. Whoever sent these had access to places and moments that should have been gone.

“Teach me to see her,” he said. “Not through a crack. Through the wall. Show me how to live in 2020, 2021, all the years after, and still know she’s in the long now. Still know she sees me.” i see you -2019-

“You’re not supposed to see me,” she said. Her voice was the static from the payphone, shaped into words. “But you kept looking. Most people stop.” Rivas ran forensic tests