I tried to delete the folder, but Windows returned a prompt: "Error 0x80070091: The directory is not empty."
I found it in a directory named \TEMP\RECOVERED\ on an external drive I bought at a garage sale for five dollars. Most of the drive was filled with blurry vacation photos from 2008, but sat at the bottom, its timestamp dated January 1, 1970 —the Unix Epoch, a common glitch for files with no metadata. I unzipped it. There were three files inside: File: Broken.Pieces.zip ...
: A document filled with 4,000 lines of the letter 'w'. Hidden in the middle is a single sentence: “The mirror showed me the back of my own head.” I tried to delete the folder, but Windows
: A thirty-second clip of what sounds like heavy rain, underlaid by a rhythmic, metallic tapping. Ten seconds in, the rain stops instantly, leaving only the tapping. Then, a whisper: "It doesn't fit anymore." There were three files inside: : A document