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FLASH FICTION
How Subtly Moving My Camera Angle a Few Degrees Every Minute Broke My Teamβs Focus
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It started as an accident. I nudged my laptop slightly during a meeting, just enough to shift my camera angle a fraction of an inch. No one noticed. Not at first.
So I did it again.
Every minute or so, I adjusted the angle β barely perceptible, almost unnoticeable. At first, it was curiosity. Then, it became control. I watched as my coworkers, one by one, started to fidget. Eyes flickered toward my box on the screen. Brows furrowed, subtle shifts in posture, subconscious attempts to correct an imbalance they couldnβt name.
By the second meeting, Sarah from HR was blinking more than usual. Greg from accounting stopped taking notes. The CEO, a man who normally never acknowledged my existence, frowned slightly before glancing away like he had caught something in his peripheral vision and decided it was better left unseen.
