Gemotions

"Magnificent," the reviewer had written. "A testament to the human spirit." Eleanor practically choked on her coffee when she read the review. The biography, "Eleanor Vance: The Courageous Curator," was a monument to manufactured sentiment. It depicted her as this relentlessly optimistic, almost saintly figure, a narrative so far removed from her actual self it was comical.

She slammed the laptop shut, the abrupt action making the screen flicker. Her hands trembled. She wanted to destroy everything. The author had clearly based the entire thing on a handful of interviews with her colleagues, ignoring every single email and phone call she tried to send to them to correct the misinformation.