A high school girl sits in homeroom observing her fellow peers as her inner self is pilled away like an onion.

We wear masks, every single one of us. We only allow tiny trickles of the emotions we conceal behind these masks to stream from the tight fixed eye and mouth breeches. That gleaming smile someone warms you with could be a disguise for cuts and scars so deep the pain has almost killed them. Or the great, white teeth of a friendly smile could be the cloak of a homicidal fanatic. Truth be told, we wear masks even to ourselves. Darkest Day is a serial novella comprised of fourteen short stories revolving around thirteen different characters all caught up in what seems like typical high school day. While most have their own problems, worries, and secret desires, one of them is having the absolute worse day of their life.