Isabella -34- Jpg -

He raised the camera without thinking. Click.

“You’re always hiding behind that thing,” she said softly. Not angry. Sad. ISABELLA -34- jpg

The file had been sitting in the folder for eleven years. Hidden. Untitled. Just a string of metadata: ISABELLA -34- jpg. He raised the camera without thinking

At the bottom of the screen, the metadata whispered: Date created: July 14, 2009. 11:47 PM. Camera: Canon EOS 5D Mark II. Flash: Did not fire. ISABELLA -34- jpg

He looked at the file name again. ISABELLA -34- jpg. He had named it that in a fit of archival organization, not realizing he was building a tombstone.