Catalina E. and Álvaro M.
Málaga · living together, apart all day
Eight years together. They share an apartment in central Málaga, but between Catalina's hospital shifts and Álvaro's film shoots, three days can pass without their waking hours overlapping. They used to leave notes on the fridge. Now, when Catalina gets home at night, she schedules a wallpaper for Álvaro to find when he wakes up. On Wednesday at 5:33, Álvaro grabs his phone to turn off the alarm and sees a photo of the living room in the dark, with two empty beers on the table and the line 'still here.' He doesn't delete it all day. What used to be a magnet note on the fridge now lives in the one place on his phone that nobody had sold to anybody yet.