July 31, 2018

I was in the library bookstore and the table was tiled with bestsellers from the last month. A friend pointed at one of the books and said that if the fifth book of the series was released on Friday, they would buy the entire series.

She pulled out a book from the shelf: The Signal and the Noise. “I’ve been eyeing this book for years”, she said. “Me too,” I responded. I never committed to actually buying or borrowing it to read despite picking it up to leaf through the pages every time I passed by it in the bookstore.

There were four turtles in a round plastic tub on the table. In the middle of the tub of water was a white kitten. I tried to shoo the cat away, but it wouldn’t move and tried to scratch me whenever I got close.