When did you learn to turn yourself down?
Stay with that
They see the version of you that made it.
Be quiet. Be normal. You were very good at it.
A different way of seeing
He did everything right.
Until nothing felt like his life.
As a child, Michael’s world sings in colour. The world around him teaches him to be quieter, smaller, easier to accept. So he learns to hide.
Years later, the mask has become a successful man on Wall Street. His life looks right from the outside. A hairline fracture begins to show what the performance has cost him.
Literary fiction · Perception, ambition and identity
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The Scars of Light
A boy who hears colours, and the man he becomes to hide them.
A novel of perception, ambition and identity. Written in English by Éon D. Aletheia.
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