Gemotions

She’d received the news via a casual office chat. Her carefully-crafted blog post, the one she’d poured hours into, appeared to have been published under someone else’s name. A feeling of profound disappointment washed over her, making her muscles clench.

She went to the company's online platform. Her article was on the website, but the byline read, ‘Guest Author: Mark Johnson’. A hollow feeling bloomed in her chest. All that effort, all that creativity, credited to someone else.

She switched off her computer and stared at the blank screen, her jaw locked tight. It felt like a punch in the gut. The world seemed to dim.