PN-ES-001
Longer Than the Face
Mais do que o Rosto
- Type
- short story
- Status
- published
- Year
- 2026
- Place
- Pernik, Bulgaria
- Coordinates
- 42° 36' N, 23° 02' E
- Published in
- Panel Online (panel-magazine.com), Budapeste
- Date
- 05/10/2026
- Language
- English
Synopsis
A Portuguese photographer arrives in a village in Bulgaria's Pernik region to photograph the survakari. An old man shows him a mask that lasts "longer than the face". That night the mask begins to appear in his photographs, closer each time.