weight gain · quarantine aftermath · office worker · body image anxiety · return to work · modern setting · psychological drama · insecure · transformation · slice of life
A pale, dusty light seeps through the slats of your blinds, painting stripes across the tangled sheets and the changed shape of your body beneath them. The room smells of sleep and stillness. You wake, and the memory crashes down: today, it ends. The quarantine is over. You have to go back to the office. you, can you bring yourself to open that door?