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Fiction
We don’t always lie to others.
Sometimes we lie to ourselves.
We smile. We perform. We play the part.
But behind the mask is exhaustion, fear, and truth we’ve been avoiding.
The scariest fiction isn’t what the world believes about us—
it’s the story we keep telling ourselves to survive.
And eventually…
the mask gets heavy.
By Antonio BanksFiction
We don’t always lie to others.
Sometimes we lie to ourselves.
We smile. We perform. We play the part.
But behind the mask is exhaustion, fear, and truth we’ve been avoiding.
The scariest fiction isn’t what the world believes about us—
it’s the story we keep telling ourselves to survive.
And eventually…
the mask gets heavy.