Reject

Nora

The next morning, I woke up feeling like I had been beaten to death. My body was tired from the first shift, but it was not physical tiredness. It was the heaviness in my chest. Everything had changed overnight, and I could not undo it.

I lay still for a few minutes, listening to my mother’s voice in the kitchen. Life was moving on as if nothing had happened, while my world had turned upside