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Leo dropped the print. It fluttered to the floor. When he picked it up, the chair was empty again. Just dust motes in a shaft of light.

“Five bucks,” said the owner, not looking up. “Takes a special camera.” fp-1000

The positive showed his studio. The negative showed his studio, but older. The calendar on the wall read a date from 1995. And in the mirror’s reflection stood a young woman in a flannel shirt, her hands on her hips, frowning at something Leo couldn’t see. She looked familiar. He realized, with a slow, cold bloom in his chest, that she was his mother—before she’d met his father. Before she’d become sad. Leo dropped the print

ENOUGH.

He peeled the tab. Waited. His heart counted the seconds, not his watch. Then, with the gentleness of a bomb disposal tech, he separated the positive from the negative. Just dust motes in a shaft of light