There’s a lot here for petite mort. It’s well written and spooky. I’d love to know more about why the characters carry their dead up the mountain for the sunrise ritual, and why his great grandmother seems intent on testing the MC so harshly, but I guess the unanswered questions are part of the thing that makes this story works.
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Thank you so much for the kind comments!
I was very much thinking of the Peruvian communities that dress and redress their dead to “keep them alive” (which I was attempting to produce in the cover image), but also Eusapia (from Calvino’s Invisible Cities), where the dead are posed as if they continue to live after their death. The later is an image that has stuck in my mind ever since I first read it as a student.
I wrote another game nearly 20 years ago based on the idea of reflections between the living and the dead, you can find it at https://www.teuton.org/~stranger/duality