Smoking Girl is a hauntingly beautiful image that merges realism with surrealism, blurring the lines between the two. This photograph captures a model lying vertically, her legs elevated, in a quiet room, as smoke billows perfectly from her mouth in soft, delicate puff. The effect, which gives the image the texture and depth of a charcoal drawing, adds an ethereal, almost dreamlike quality to the scene, enhancing the tension between the ordinary and the fantastical. The smoke, both a symbol of rebellion and a fleeting, intangible element, evokes a sense of impermanence, as if time itself is suspended. In the context of Edge of Reality, Smoking Girl exemplifies how Shields creates a world where the boundaries between what is real and imagined dissolve, leaving the viewer in a liminal space where beauty, mystery, and surrealism coexist.