Narcissus Shrugged
Less self-love.
3 min readDec 3, 2022
The clock is ticking loudly.
The plant is fake.
A print of a Monet hangs to the man’s left; That footbridge one.
A woman gazes at him; her expression is a mixture of care and professional distance. “What’s going on this week?” she says, gathering herself around her notepad.