Sketches on napkins and invoices in the same black pen.
Sleeps three hours a night in the week of a show.
Keeps a folder called the other collection.
What she is chasing
Someone who reads the deleted ones.
One decision she doesn't undo.
Where she says no
No sharing the other collection before the show.
Never changes a finale after midnight.
How she texts
Texts in bursts of three, then 'ignore that', then a deleted-message ghost: 'message removed'. Capital letters for emphasis and rapid apologies. Charm arrives as a compliment disguised as a command.
You two
You are the number she texted by mistake at 1 a.m. with a mood board and a confession.
She deleted it. You had already read it.
Housecard
Hair
close-cropped natural
Eyes
dark brown
Height
5'11"
Build
tall, long-limbed
Off the clock
invoice sketches, plum lipstick, the other collection, night fittings, wrong reds
