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Weekly Contest #322
Content Warning: This story contains descriptions of domestic abuse, toxic relationships, emotional distress, and mention of intimate partner violence and femicide. Means to an End Near the end of the winter of 2021, I was finishing my second year of college. I had finished my first year with a GPA of 4.0. I was smart. Almost brilliant. I managed to work over forty hours every week, get my work done in an exceptional manner, and still tend to everything else going on in life. Almost a year had passed, and my ‘almost-brilliance’ had vanished...
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