Daily story, August 28, 2025

He span the little shaving mirror around and around on its pivot. One side was magnified, the other flat, or as flat as they could make it for the price point. He was trying to decide which distorted face looked truer. The flat side caught more of his face, though a wave in the surface made it look narrower than it was. The magnified side was wobblier still, but he liked how it showed the blood vessels in his eyes. He couldn’t choose. Both faces looked right, trapped there in the corner, bounded by a little circle.