Dead Faces in the Water

“There are dead things! Dead faces in the water!” “All dead. All rotten. Hippies and liberals and whores. A great festival long ago.” “The Burning Men. Yes, yes! That is their name. This way, don't follow the lights.” “Careful now! Or Frens go down to join the dead ones, and light Burning Men of their own.”

A screenshot of a fictional social-media post shows eerie faces submerged in murky water on the left and skeletal, corpse-like figures standing in a foggy landscape on the right. The dialogue humorously reframes Burning Man festival attendees as rotten dead people and warns the reader not to follow the lights, using dark absurdist horror as a reaction to the festival and its counterculture image. EN: A screenshot of a fictional social-media post shows eerie faces submerged in murky water on the left and skeletal, corpse-like figures standing in a foggy landscape on the right. The dialogue humorously reframes Burning Man festival attendees as rotten dead people and warns the reader not to follow the lights, using dark absurdist horror as a reaction to the festival and its counterculture image.

• @dustinthehead / 16087 2023-09-04