A man who looks fine to everyone around him is secretly falling apart inside. When a panic attack tears down the mask he's worn for years, he faces an impossible choice: build new walls to hide behind, or finally learn to be honest about the storm he's been carrying alone his whole life.
There's someone in his life who sees through the cracks—someone who loves him and keeps asking him to let her in. But he doesn't know how. He's built these walls so high, been holding everything underwater for so long, that he's forgotten what it feels like to just... breathe.
He has to choose between surviving and living. Between hiding and being seen. Between the boy who learned to drown in silence and the man who learns, finally, to swim.
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Ashish Goskula
Ashish Goskula is a writer by passion and an engineer by profession—a combination that taught him about protecting systems while questioning the walls we build around ourselves. He lives in Hyderabad, Telangana - Hakeekat ka Shahar (A city of reality).
He started writing at fourteen—mostly terrible poetry that he's grateful no one will ever read. But he never stopped. Those cringe-worthy notebooks evolved into something deeper: a lifelong obsession with figuring out why humans do the weird, complicated things we do, and trying to capture it in words.
HE is a story about the courage it takes to stop pretending, written by someone who understands both the necessity of protection and the danger of hiding too well.
HE is his first novel, but it won't be his last.
