She looked at her reflection in the dead laptop screen. Her eyes were just a little too close together now. Her smile—when she tried to stop it—kept going.

In the forum thread, the timestamp had changed. Not 2007 anymore.

The file size grew by one kilobyte. Then another.

The video cut to black. The timestamp flickered: 11:59 PM, October 31, 2007.

“Trick or treat,” the children said in unison.

The woman pulled off the bedsheet. Her face was wrong. Not deformed—just… empty. As if someone had erased her features and drawn them back from memory, but badly. Eyes too close together. Mouth a straight line. She smiled, and her teeth kept going, row after row, like a shark’s.