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Ongoing, First published Jun 19, 2025
"She doesn't remember what happened. But the tape does."

On her eighteenth birthday, Ava receives a strange, unmarked package.

Inside: a vintage VHS tape... and a note that reads: Play Me.

The footage shows a woman screaming, a dark figure in the background, and a toddler silently watching.

The girl in the video is Ava.
But she has no memory of it.

Adopted at the age of five, Ava has always felt the weight of something missing - something important. Now, as more tapes begin to appear, Ava is pulled deeper into a mystery buried in her forgotten past... one that someone clearly never wanted her to uncover.

But the more she watches, the more she remembers.
And some truths were never meant to be remembered.


---

"The past doesn't stay dead. Especially when it's on tape."
"Watch carefully... the next frame might be yours."
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