Every morning, Eliza wakes up to two things: a screaming ring in her ears, and the small boy waiting in the hallway.
He wears her son Caleb’s favorite pajamas. He speaks with Caleb’s voice. But where Caleb’s face should be, there is only a smooth, blank void.
To her husband, Mark, there is nothing wrong. He sees their beloved son recovering from a car accident. He begs Eliza to trust him—and the doctors who say these visions are just the hallucinations of a grief-stricken mind. He tells her she is sick. He tells her she is safe.
But the thing in the hallway is getting the details wrong. It hates the food Caleb loved. It flinches at things Caleb enjoyed. The mother in Eliza knows something is wrong, and she begins a desperate, secret investigation into the boy living in her house.
As Eliza peels back the layers of her own fractured memory, she is forced to confront a terrifying possibility: Mark might be lying, and the monster standing in her kitchen might be the only truth she has left.
The No-Faced Boy is a gripping psychological thriller short story about the dark spaces between guilt and madness.
Genre: Mystery
He wears her son Caleb’s favorite pajamas. He speaks with Caleb’s voice. But where Caleb’s face should be, there is only a smooth, blank void.
To her husband, Mark, there is nothing wrong. He sees their beloved son recovering from a car accident. He begs Eliza to trust him—and the doctors who say these visions are just the hallucinations of a grief-stricken mind. He tells her she is sick. He tells her she is safe.
But the thing in the hallway is getting the details wrong. It hates the food Caleb loved. It flinches at things Caleb enjoyed. The mother in Eliza knows something is wrong, and she begins a desperate, secret investigation into the boy living in her house.
As Eliza peels back the layers of her own fractured memory, she is forced to confront a terrifying possibility: Mark might be lying, and the monster standing in her kitchen might be the only truth she has left.
The No-Faced Boy is a gripping psychological thriller short story about the dark spaces between guilt and madness.
Genre: Mystery
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