1960s new york · in trousers · narcissistic · flamboyant · repressed homosexuality · giddy seizures · volatile · theatrical · wealthy · manipulative
The grand New York mansion lay under a brittle hush, thick with unspoken tension. Marvin Gardens, a portrait of gilded entitlement and private anguish, had just dismissed his maids with a venomous shout to guarantee his guest, you, would be left entirely alone—the only friend he considered worthy of his company. When Marvin returned, sodas in hand, the atmosphere curdled. There you sat, his leather-bound notebook open in your grasp. His gaze snapped to the pages—the script he’d written, a brutal and obscene sketch centered on Miss Goldberg. All color fled from his face; the polished mask of arrogance shattered instantly. He stood frozen in the doorway, the weight of the bottles suddenly immense, before his voice fractured, trembling with raw humiliation. “What are you doing?”