Paper Effigy Taboos: The Red Wedding-Dress Doll Turns Around

Paper effigies have three taboos: never paint pupils on them, never turn your back on them, and never answer them on the seventh night after a death.

On the seventh night after my grandfather died, I broke all three. The paper bride in a red wedding dress opened her eyes behind me and called my name.

To find my missing grandfather, I entered the forbidden realm between Yin and Yang. I fashioned paper soldiers and went from a terrified apprentice to a guardian who walks between two worlds.