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The session with no counselor

The counselor never showed up, yet someone signs the register for him. And he is in the photos of every past summer.

Lines: 30 · about 99 s of video · Summer camp

  1. YouOur counselor is missing
  2. ThemMissing how
  3. YouHe never turned up. He is not at the flag line
  4. ThemSo who is running your cabin
  5. YouNobody. We walk to breakfast alone, lights out alone
  6. ThemThat cannot happen. There are checks
  7. YouSomeone signs the register in his name
  8. pause 1.5 s
  9. ThemTell the head counselor
  10. YouThe head says Adam is right here
  11. And that he saw him this morning
  12. ThemThen he exists
  13. YouHe is in none of the photos in the camp chat
  14. pause 1.2 s
  15. ThemMaybe he is the one taking them
  16. YouHe is in every photo
  17. ThemYou are contradicting yourself
  18. YouIn the photos from past summers
  19. 2019, 2014, 2006. The same face
  20. pause 1.8 s
  21. ThemSend them
  22. YouNo. You will not sleep after
  23. ThemSend them
  24. pause 1.5 s
  25. YouSent
  26. ThemThis is not funny
  27. You are wearing the shirt you bought last summer
  28. YouWhat
  29. ThemIn the 2006 photo, that is you standing there
  30. pause 2.0 s
  31. YouI was not at that camp in 2006
  32. In 2006 I was not born yet
  33. pause 1.2 s
  34. ThemThen why is the caption "Our cabin. Everyone came back"
  35. YouWho wrote the caption
  36. ThemAdam

How it works

The photograph works as evidence and as a trap at once. First there is one person too many in it, then it turns out the extra one is whoever is looking.

Every story here is fiction. Any resemblance to real people or events is coincidental.