The Thousand Faces

"Masks do not conceal the truth. They become it."

The Thousand Faces

“They told me to smile. So I did. Then they stopped looking. And that’s when I started to disappear.”



It began with a name.

Spoken aloud, then laughed at.

Not because it was funny — but because cruelty needs permission, and the world gave it freely.



New to the school. New to the system.

He came with nothing but a quiet voice and eyes that still believed people meant what they said.

But belief has a body count — and by the end of the first day, part of him was already gone.



Each chapter of The Thousand Faces is a quiet descent — into performance, into survival, into silence.

He learns how to smile without joy.

How to sit beside monsters without flinching.

How to wear a face so convincingly that no one remembers what was beneath it.



This is not a story of rebellion.

This is the story of a child becoming what the world demanded of him — one face at a time.

And if he survives, it won’t be because he was strong.

It’ll be because he learned to vanish in plain sight.



A haunting meditation on identity, complicity, and the quiet violence of forced innocence. For readers who understand that the scariest monsters are the ones that smile back.