The Faceless
No one knew where they came from. Slowly, but surely, they appeared — on the streets, in corners of the bathroom, within the aisles of libraries and grocery stores. Slender figures stood in grey suits, and they were all over the news, seemingly within days, at first reported as hoaxes not unlike the classic Bigfoot stuff we saw on TV, or even the iconic Slender Man phenomenon. It then quickly morphed into a psychological dilemma, plaguing the minds of many within minutes. While everyone got crazy over “Slender Man,” all those years ago, communities left and right were now making quick exits out of town when the faceless came around (the press gave them that name).
It wasn’t just any cult persona of terror. Truly, we all thought it was some sort of invasion. An onslaught that couldn’t be stopped…. Had to have been aliens, or some government conspiracy to control the population. Who knew. But what I did know was that I wasn’t going outside without a blindfold.
Not even to bring the trash can back into the driveway….
You could only imagine the pandemonium — looters, riots, raging demonstrations of all kinds…
