Final Rejection

Genevieve

Genevieve collapsed onto the stiff mattress of her Oklahoma City hotel bed, her face buried into the generic comforter. Her muscles twitched, her exhausted body trembling violently from thirty-eight grueling hours fueled by a mere two hours of fitful sleep. Every nerve ending felt frayed, humming with a toxic cocktail of fading adrenaline and sheer physical depletion. Her car had been a