Chapter 6
Light streamed in through the slotted mini blinds of Samantha’s tiny apartment bedroom. It passed straight through her thin polyester curtains and splashed across her face, causing her to squint and groan. Her head pounded, and the light assaulting the outside of her eyelids felt like thousands of tiny needles being pressed into her eyeballs. She groaned and rolled over, grabbing the pillow and squeezing it tightly around her head. She hadn’t overdone it enough to spend the entire night in the bathroom floor praying to the porcelain god, but she’d come close. Now she just wanted to find a nice damp hole in the ground to crawl into and hibernate until winter … of next year.
She was just about to doze back off when her phone chirped. She made a noise that sounded like something a
