The figure began to mouth words. Elias leaned closer, his nose nearly touching the screen. “Don't... click... Save As...”
Suddenly, the desktop icons began to vibrate. One by one, they were dragged toward the center of the wallpaper, disappearing into the digital soil like offerings. Elias reached for the power button, but his hand stopped mid-air.
The silhouette stopped at the very front of the image, pressing its palms against the inside of the glass. The monitor’s resolution seemed to sharpen impossibly. Elias could now see the dirt under the figure’s fingernails and the frantic, wide-eyed terror in its eyes. It wasn't a ghost; it was a man, dressed in modern clothes, trapped in a loop of 2,073,600 pixels.
On the screen, the silhouette had moved aside. In the background of the graveyard, a new grave had appeared. The headstone was blank, waiting for a name.
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Elias looked down at his own hands. They were turning gray, the skin becoming textured like a compressed JPEG. He looked back at the monitor and realized the perspective had shifted. He was no longer looking at the wallpaper; the wallpaper was looking at him. With a final, static-filled pop, the room went dark.