Prompt is: Topher, measure of a man, three sentences only.
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He laughs, and jokes, and tries never to be serious, because to be serious is to be like his father wanted him to be.
He remembers words heard long ago - be a man, Christopher, real men don't cry - and crumples a sheet of paper into a ball, throwing it into the trash harder than he needs to.
Topher looks out of his office at the small, self-contained world he's been a part of creating, and thinks about the things he's done, and wonders if his father would be proud of the man he became.
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