Emily stirred awake, the darkness of her room broken only by the faint glow of the moonlight filtering through the curtains.
It was midnight by now and the neighborhood was quiet at this time of the night.
The sharp chime of her cell phone cut through the silence once more. It was a notification lighting up the screen on her nightstand. Her chest rose and fell with the rhythm of her interrupted sleep, but the sound had jarred her fully awake. Groggily, she reached for the phone, the cool metal frame slipping slightly in her grasp.
Her eyes squinted against the bright light as she unlocked the screen, revealing the endless notifications that came from her social media apps.
“Ugh” With a sigh, Emily gave in, letting her thumb swipe upward as her feed filled with a curated chaos of meme
