A Name I Can't Get Out of My Head

There are nights when one name fills every corner of your thoughts, uninvited and impossible to shake. Tonight that name is Karen Torres. I don’t know exactly what it is, the way she carries herself, something she said, the way she looked at me once without quite looking away. Whatever it is, it has settled under my skin and it isn’t leaving. I find myself alone, the room quiet except for my own breathing, and she is all I can think about. Not a fantasy I built from scratch, but something that feels almost like a memory, warm and specific, pulled from details I’ve been quietly collecting without meaning to. I let myself go there tonight. I let the thought of her run without interruption, without apology. By the end I am breathless, a little lighter, and her name is still right there on the surface of everything. Some obsessions don’t ask permission. They just move in.

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