Gemotions

The rejection letters still haunted her. They always would. And then, there it was, an email from the university. "Published." The words blurred as tears welled up in her eyes. It was a cruel jest. Her dreams had been reduced to a case study.

She felt a hollowness in her chest, a vast emptiness that nothing could fill. She was a failure, and now everyone would know. She was nothing, nobody. A void.

She closed the laptop and put her head in her hands, her shoulders shaking, and allowed herself to be lost in thought, or rather, the lack of them.