Behind the Masks
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Eleanor Guest is your typical teenage girl, living in a society where masks are required and speaking about negative emotions or thoughts is outlawed. Struggling, seemingly alone, with mental illness, she meets Oliver Wilkins, a classmate, who she learns shares her struggles. Together they must work to overcome their own limits, and challenge the society in which they live.This however, homes with a cost. If they're caught, they're taken to solitary confinement. People sent there, never come back.
This was a short story I initially wrote for an AP Language class, which I'm now expanding to a full length novel. Enjoy!
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