The girl without a face
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Last published Sun, May 4, 2025
If you don't like how you look, you don't have to see it, right?
Ella Clifford is a teenage girl struggling greatly with self image and mental issues.
She decides one day that she will never look into a mirror again, that she's so ugly that she never wants to see the person she is.
Little does Ella know that this little experiment will lead to a great domino effect of things happening.
She wants to get better, but is she going to? Does she really, truly want to?
TW: If you struggle with self harm, please be cautious to read this story
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