- Working title
- The Website Photo
- Situation
- The narrator is choosing a photo for a website and avoids the one that most closely resembles them.
- What the narrator is avoiding, admitting or circling
- They are circling vanity, ageing and the difference between looking honest and looking presentable.
- Concrete detail
- Three image files open on the screen, one too flattering, one too tired and one that would probably do.
- Emotional pressure
- The pressure is small but personal: choosing what version of yourself other people are allowed to see.
- Suggested first sentence
- I had three photos open and knew which one I was not going to use.