By Sofia Eun-Young Guerra
How many all-nighters does it take to turn a girl into a bird? She’s doing sit-ups on the floor of her bedroom. The lights are off. Outside, the wind whistles through the trees.
She’s crunching the numbers. She’s putting that mathematics degree to good use. She’s nothing if not efficient. Tomorrow is trash day. She’ll need to remember to take out the bins when she goes on her morning run.
She promised herself she’d learned her lesson. But she’s back to hiding cake in her closet, plummeting down her steepest hill yet.
Sofia Eun-Young Guerra is a Mexican-Korean writer from Tacoma, Washington. Her work has previously appeared and is forthcoming in JMWW, Neologism Poetry Journal, The Inflectionist Review, and fifth wheel press. Outside of writing, she spends her time folding origami butterflies and reading about sharks.
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