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Dead Faces Don't BleedBy Fiun "Luna" Volnovikov

"You will wake up one day and find your name missing.Your skin unfamiliar.Your mind not yours."

Reality is shattered—but nobody can recall what it sounded like when it broke.

Carmen was meant to be normal. School, sports, a future he could see. Elena was a legend in her own room—missing, genius, impossible to read. Their worlds weren't meant to intersect.

Until something opened.Until someone screamed.Until they ceased dreaming, and began bleeding within themselves.

Now Carmen is Root—a boy who can spear with his own spine. Elena is Omega—a girl who controls mirror shards and observes too closely. Together, they wake up in a world that does not belong, where individuals wear their traumas like skin, and gods are constructed out of silence and rot.

But the worst things are never the monsters.They're the pieces of you that return… awry.The flashbacks that re-write themselves.The smiles that won't blink.The friends who know too much.

There is a war imminent. One that has no banners.The battlefield is the mind.And you never signed up.

This is a tale of identity breakdown, predatory madness, and the sort of terror that doesn't have to scream to kill you.Because sometimes the most frightening aspect of waking up—is the realization you didn't.