I don’t even know why I’m posting this because it sounds so ungrateful and my mom would probably kill me if she knew I was even thinking like this but I just feel like I’m suffocating. I live in this tiny town—I’m not gonna say where but we don’t even have a movie theater, we just have a Walmart and a lot of corn—and everyone here knows everything about you before you even do it. Like if I buy a soda at the Sunoco my grandma hears about it by dinner time. It’s always been like that and I’ve always just been the weird kid who stays in her room and draws on her tablet instead of going to the football games or whatever. I just like being alone where it’s quiet and nobody is looking at me. Anyway so I’ve been posting my drawings online for a couple years, just like fanart and stuff and some original characters I made up when I was bored in history class. I never thought anyone would actually CARE but then last week I got this email from a real publishing house in the city. A BIG one.