1,000 Cuts

In the shadows of British Columbia's youth custody system, Dr. Allen Morrison built a reputation as a visionary behavioral specialist. Behind closed doors, he administered an experimental compound known as RX-47—marketed as therapy, engineered for compliance. The results were quiet, efficient, and devastating.

Years later, survivor Jamie Kovak is still living with Morrison's legacy: conditioned obedience, fractured memory, and a voice in his head that sounds disturbingly like the man who once called control "care." When investigative journalist Rebecca Chen uncovers evidence linking Morrison's work to a wider institutional cover-up, the past refuses to stay buried.

As injunctions are filed and powerful figures scramble to protect Morrison's legacy, Jamie is pulled back into a fight he barely survived. The deeper Rebecca digs, the clearer it becomes that Morrison was never acting alone—and that RX-47 was only one piece of a carefully constructed system designed to reshape troubled youth into something easier to manage.

1,000 Cuts is a psychological thriller about charismatic authority, coercive "treatment," and the slow erosion of identity under institutional power. At its core, it asks a chilling question: how many lives can be rewritten before someone decides to remember?

Inspired by documented patterns of misconduct in youth facilities, all characters and events are fictionalized.

Content advisory: Psychological manipulation, institutional abuse, trauma symptoms, mental health crises, and violence. Intended for mature readers.