Gemotions

The press release arrived on Clara’s phone with a jarring *ping*. Her research, her theories on the migratory patterns of the endangered blue jay, were now the subject of a book "authored" by her supervisor, Professor Hayes. A slow, burning rage ignited within her.

Clara spent the next several months meticulously documenting every inconsistency in Hayes’s "book." She meticulously created a side-by-side comparison of her notes and the published work. She even found the original blueprints of the field cameras she had designed, complete with her signature.

She anonymously sent the documentation to every ornithological society she could find. Soon, Hayes’s reputation was in tatters. He was blacklisted from conferences, and his funding dried up. Clara, meanwhile, quietly submitted her own book proposal.