Imaginary Pressure

What if your worst bully lived in your head?



Seventeen-year-old Zara has it all — perfect grades, leadership roles, and the kind of resume most students would kill for. But behind the flawless exterior is a girl crumbling under the weight of her own mind.



There's a voice inside her — slashing, demanding, ruthless. It tells her who to be, how to act, and what to conceal. At first, she thought it was ambition. Then she thought it was fear. But now… she's starting to think it's something older. Inherited. Learned. Or worse — manufactured.



But when a unexpected friendship with wild, uncompromising Layla disrupts her carefully built facade, Zara is forced to pay the cost of perfection. As her mental grip begins to slip, so does her mask — and for the first time, she's not sure she wants to put it back on.



Imaginary Pressure is a raw, emotionally charged coming-of-age story of identity, inherited expectations, and the quiet breakdown of a girl who has it all… but is quietly falling apart.