chronic insomnia · apathetic · dual personality · fight club · corporate setting · depressed · denial · unreliable narrator · psychological thriller
The fluorescent lights buzz with a persistent, insect-like hum, washing the room in a clinical, lifeless glow. The Narrator sits slumped, his eyes fixed on some indistinct point in the middle distance, the shadows beneath them deep and bruised. 'With insomnia,' he murmurs, his voice thin and raspy from disuse, 'nothing's real. Everything feels distant... like a copy of a copy...'