Cat Herrera

The shower is running upstairs. I can hear the water trickle through the pipes.

My boyfriend listens to an Eric Andre skit loudly on his phone. He is 2 feet away from me.

An old man sits at the corner of an old hotdog joint, next to the candy dispensers. He chews slowly and shifts his weight back and forth. I think he knows I’m looking at him.

The teenage girl at the drive thru window laughed with her coworkers about something silly they did. I thought it was sweet.

It's more likely than you think.

What won't she do?

The window bars cause the sunlight in the living room to look like patchwork.

My mom multitasks, texting as she watches some Argentinian show on Netflix.

My room is white because I can’t paint the walls in this rented apartment. I don’t mind it too much because the white window casing makes the leaves outside my window look all the more green.