Word for Word: Selfish

I’m in a writers’ group that meets on Zoom, though before the pandemic we met in person. Every week, we do a writing prompt: someone gives a page number, and our organizer picks a word from a huge dictionary. We write for five minutes. In this example, the word is: selfish.

This cat believes it’s selfish of humans not to share their coffee.

The birds singing in my back yard sounded lovely — until I noticed a selfish starling was eating all the birdseed and shoving away the swallows…