Prompt
A quick pop from the built-in flash throws harsh shadows across her face, sunglasses reflecting crooked summer string lights glowing faintly behind her. Pixel fringing blurs the worn edges of the mirror she snaps into, and the silver digital camera peeks from her hand with a subtle flash bloom. CCD speckles dance in the pastel dimness, while the tungsten room light tugs warm highlights across the cool shadowed corners. The angle is slightly off-kilter, the soft focus edges stuttering as if the moment was caught mid-shake, timestamped “08 JUL 2001 22:45” in the bottom corner. The photo quality is low-resolution and somewhat grainy.—early-2000s digicam snapshot, grainy low-res quality