Chapter One

She felt confused by the wave of cats passing by. The only color of spray paint she had was orange. The sound of the cats mewing threw her off for a moment but then she got back to thinking of orange; and the feeling of meaning.

She called herself "Old Orange". "I am a color," she sprayed on the wall.

"Check out my side graffiti," she said first to herself, then to the cats, and then, with some Starbucks Courage-Infusion tea, to him.

"I am a colored person now."

He looked shocked and kind of weird-ed out but replied, "Now as in for now? Or as in from now on?"