Marvelous new @helleborezine.bsky.social! Looking forward to digging in to this article to find out what’s going on here & if there’s any chance I’m ever going to get my lipstick just right ever again

Then I searched my email & realized I’d spoken with the director, tho I was in Florida & missed the screening. Sadly, director Erik Kristopher Myers passed away a few years ago. Most importantly, a huge loss to his family & friends, but also a loss to the film world. /7

Steve told me the story was originally written for & appeared in “In the Blink of an Eye” which was an authorized collection of stories inspired by the Ellicott City-set found footage film Butterfly Kisses (2018). 4/

Later, I pulled @stevetoase.bsky.social’s fiction collection Dirt Upon My Skin (2024) back off the shelf & it opened on the story “Traverse.”

*pause to say that in reality our field school didn’t mysteriously disappear, the project ended. And that it was actually west of Ellicott City* 3/