Please Stop Restoring Me

Your mother left eight photographs. You have one desk, a brass scraper, and the rest of the night. Each print has been painted over by hand. Scrape the paint away and the photograph comes back: a garden, a birthday, a lake, a kitchen table. So does everything else she covered. Uncover eight photographs with your finger, read what they give back, and decide what to keep. A complete, quiet horror story about grief, disappearance and memory, with two endings and callbacks to your earlier choices. • Eight tactile photographs, each with evidence and a choice • Complete offline story; no account required • Automatic saves and backup export/import • Reduced motion, larger text and volume settings • No advertising, subscriptions or in-app purchases Content note: grief, a brother missing since 1997, unsettling images and sound. No jump-scare volume spikes. The family photographs, the moving figure and the cover were generated with AI image tools. Story and code were made with AI assistance. The music was generated with Google Flow Music; sound effects are synthesized in code. Every person shown in the photographs, the moving figure and the cover is an adult (1.2 artwork, November 6, 2026).